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css-tricks.com

CSS-Tricks - Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets.

Page Load Speed

69.9 sec in total

First Response

151 ms

Resources Loaded

44.4 sec

Page Rendered

25.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Css-tricks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 151 ms and then it took 69.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

css-tricks.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

css-tricks.com

151 ms

css-tricks.com

454 ms

fonts.css

3169 ms

style.css

2590 ms

simple-payments.css

2541 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Css-tricks.com, 30% (16 requests) were made to Cdn.css-tricks.com and 22% (12 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) relates to the external source Srv.buysellads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 606.2 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Css-tricks.com main page is 1.6 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 758.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 95.4 kB
  • After minification 83.0 kB
  • After compression 23.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.4 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 71.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 534.9 kB
  • After minification 509.1 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. CSS Tricks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 131.1 kB

  • Original 229.9 kB
  • After minification 229.6 kB
  • After compression 98.8 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 131.1 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 377.5 kB

  • Original 758.2 kB
  • After minification 745.1 kB
  • After compression 380.7 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Css-tricks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 377.5 kB or 50% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (49%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CSS Tricks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

css-tricks.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Css-tricks.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Css-tricks.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of CSS Tricks. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: