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laurakcowan.com

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

482 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Laurakcowan.com page load time and found that the first response time was 482 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

laurakcowan.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 164 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Laurakcowan.com, 20% (33 requests) were made to Pixel.wp.com and 11% (18 requests) were made to A2editor.files.wordpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source A2editor.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 964.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Laurakcowan.com main page is 3.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 145.6 kB

  • Original 194.5 kB
  • After minification 191.2 kB
  • After compression 48.9 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 145.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Laurakcowan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 587.6 kB

  • Original 855.6 kB
  • After minification 790.9 kB
  • After compression 268.0 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 587.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 214.4 kB

  • Original 263.1 kB
  • After minification 261.1 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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. Laurakcowan.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 214.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 92 (59%)

Requests Now

155

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 155 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Laurakcowan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

laurakcowan.com 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 Laurakcowan.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 Laurakcowan.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Laurakcowan. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: