Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

1000 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

367 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Central.gdgt.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1000 ms and then it took 7.1 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

central.gdgt.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

central.gdgt.com

1000 ms

styles.css

9 ms

core.js

19 ms

adsWrapper.js

14 ms

adhads.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Central.gdgt.com, 17% (17 requests) were made to Blogcdn.com and 14% (14 requests) were made to Apx.moatads.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.2 sec) relates to the external source Blogcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 598.7 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

728.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Central.gdgt.com main page is 1.3 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. Javascripts take 756.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 32.7 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 25.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 39.1 kB

  • Original 474.1 kB
  • After minification 435.0 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. Central Gdgt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 484.6 kB

  • Original 756.7 kB
  • After minification 748.6 kB
  • After compression 272.0 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 484.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 49.7 kB

  • Original 62.6 kB
  • After minification 62.0 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. Central.gdgt.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (56%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Central Gdgt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

central.gdgt.com SEO score

0

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 Central.gdgt.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 Central.gdgt.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 description is not detected on the main page of Central Gdgt. 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: