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dotschools.com

DOTSCHOOLS | Find Affordable Online Schools

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

171 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

659 ms

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About Website

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An Online Directory of Affordable Accredited On-line And On-Campus Schools

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dotschools.com page load time and found that the first response time was 171 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dotschools.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

dotschools.com

171 ms

bootstrap.min.css

52 ms

superfish.css

27 ms

style.css

34 ms

fontello.css

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Dotschools.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (345 ms) relates to the external source Contextual.media.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (52%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Dotschools.com main page is 2.6 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. 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 96.3 kB

  • Original 130.0 kB
  • After minification 114.8 kB
  • After compression 33.7 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 15.2 kB, which is 12% 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 96.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 71.1 kB

  • Original 860.6 kB
  • After minification 789.5 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. DOTSCHOOLS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 888.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 401.3 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 888.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 312.4 kB

  • Original 362.1 kB
  • After minification 278.5 kB
  • After compression 49.7 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. Dotschools.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 312.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (70%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DOTSCHOOLS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

dotschools.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 Dotschools.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 Dotschools.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 DOTSCHOOLS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: