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glassdoor.ie

Glassdoor Job Search | You deserve a job that loves you back

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

407 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glassdoor.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glassdoor.ie performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

index.htm

199 ms

gd-core.css

321 ms

gd-home.css

356 ms

jquery.min.js

65 ms

gd-i18n-site-en-IE.js

349 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Glassdoor.ie, 18% (17 requests) were made to Media.glassdoor.com and 15% (14 requests) were made to Static.glassdoor.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (993 ms) relates to the external source Static.glassdoor.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 388.0 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

665.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Glassdoor.ie main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 540.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 129.3 kB
  • After minification 127.2 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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 97.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 101.3 kB

  • Original 540.0 kB
  • After minification 438.6 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. Obviously, Glassdoor needs image optimization as it can save up to 101.3 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 189.3 kB

  • Original 384.1 kB
  • After minification 381.7 kB
  • After compression 194.8 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 189.3 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (57%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glassdoor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts 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 Glassdoor.ie 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 Glassdoor.ie 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 Glassdoor. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: