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independentmeans.com

Independent Means Inc.

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

818 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Independentmeans.com page load time and found that the first response time was 818 ms and then it took 4 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

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Network Requests Diagram

www.independentmeans.com

818 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

232 ms

bootstrap.css

251 ms

bootstrap.js

164 ms

css

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Independentmeans.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to S3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Independentmeans.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 891.4 kB (75%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

290.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Independentmeans.com main page is 1.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 702.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.7 kB, which is 16% 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 12.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 489.8 kB

  • Original 702.4 kB
  • After minification 652.7 kB
  • After compression 212.6 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 489.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 389.0 kB

  • Original 462.4 kB
  • After minification 421.0 kB
  • After compression 73.4 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. Independentmeans.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 389.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (82%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Independent Means. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Independentmeans.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Independentmeans.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 Independent Means. 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: