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hellotalk.net

HelloTalk - Language Exchange - Learn Languages for Free

Page Load Speed

21.8 sec in total

First Response

545 ms

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

482 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Hello Talk content for Hong Kong. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hellotalk.net

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hellotalk.net page load time and found that the first response time was 545 ms and then it took 21.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

hellotalk.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hellotalk.net

545 ms

www.hellotalk.com

619 ms

home_style.css

1102 ms

threephones.png

3343 ms

appstorebutton.jpg

1126 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hellotalk.net, 53% (18 requests) were made to Cdn2.nihaotalk.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Hellotalk.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Cdn2.nihaotalk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 162.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

936.9 kB

After Optimization

774.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Hellotalk.net main page is 936.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 716.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 22.5 kB
  • After minification 20.9 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 16.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 716.8 kB
  • After minification 684.7 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. Hello Talk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 102.8 kB

  • Original 183.2 kB
  • After minification 182.1 kB
  • After compression 80.4 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 102.8 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. Hellotalk.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (43%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hello Talk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 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 Hellotalk.net 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 Hellotalk.net 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 Hello Talk. 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: