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forums.contracostatimes.com

East Bay Times - Contra Costa and Alameda county news, sports, entertainment, lifestyle and commentary

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

817 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.contracostatimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forums.contracostatimes.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.contracostatimes.com

210 ms

bartertown.css

74 ms

jquery.min.js

112 ms

bartertown-section.css

71 ms

metaRefresh.js

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 208 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Forums.contracostatimes.com, 15% (31 requests) were made to Extras.mnginteractive.com and 9% (18 requests) were made to Local.contracostatimes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.goroost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (55%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Forums.contracostatimes.com main page is 2.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 964.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 198.1 kB

  • Original 237.5 kB
  • After minification 222.6 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 198.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 71.1 kB

  • Original 707.7 kB
  • After minification 636.6 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. Forums Contra Costa Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 624.9 kB

  • Original 964.6 kB
  • After minification 890.8 kB
  • After compression 339.7 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 624.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 414.5 kB

  • Original 474.5 kB
  • After minification 329.5 kB
  • After compression 60.0 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. Forums.contracostatimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 414.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 139 (71%)

Requests Now

195

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 195 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Contra Costa Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

forums.contracostatimes.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forums.contracostatimes.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Forums.contracostatimes.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 Forums Contra Costa Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: