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futurecities.ethz.ch

Home - Future Cities Laboratory

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

604 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

395 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Futurecities.ethz.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 604 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

futurecities.ethz.ch

604 ms

www.fcl.ethz.ch

2580 ms

bootstrap.css

399 ms

otw-grid.css

201 ms

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214 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Futurecities.ethz.ch, 98% (102 requests) were made to Fcl.ethz.ch and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Fcl.ethz.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 665.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Futurecities.ethz.ch main page is 2.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 77.4 kB

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 79.3 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 10.6 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 77.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 102.6 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB

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. Future Cities Ethz images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 264.1 kB

  • Original 349.0 kB
  • After minification 293.8 kB
  • After compression 84.8 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 264.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 221.5 kB

  • Original 262.5 kB
  • After minification 210.8 kB
  • After compression 41.0 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. Futurecities.ethz.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 221.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (29%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

72

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Future Cities Ethz. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

futurecities.ethz.ch 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 Futurecities.ethz.ch 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 Futurecities.ethz.ch 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Future Cities Ethz. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: