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educationnation.com

NBC News Education Nation: Build the Future

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

604 ms

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About Website

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NBC News Education Nation hosted a live town hall on the issues facing young adults after high school and solutions to ensure their success.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Educationnation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

educationnation.com

143 ms

education-nation

449 ms

ae0bc3d0.main.css

62 ms

2e738e5d.2016-election-marquee.css

83 ms

e13156bf.modernizr.js

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Educationnation.com, 8% (11 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 7% (10 requests) were made to Media2.s-nbcnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (449 ms) relates to the external source Nbcnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Educationnation.com main page is 2.8 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 220.6 kB

  • Original 267.9 kB
  • After minification 243.5 kB
  • After compression 47.2 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 220.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 452.3 kB
  • After minification 437.3 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. Education Nation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 590.5 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 1.4 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 48.4 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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. Educationnation.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (59%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Education Nation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Educationnation.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 Educationnation.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 Education Nation. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: