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rodales.com

Hearst Magazines

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

396 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rodales.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rodales.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

Default-Start

1923 ms

3221870289.js

112 ms

satelliteLib-386ccb51b230ecd4b731c4e2bb0326130ad7fa78.js

6 ms

normalize.css

14 ms

janrain.css

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Rodales.com, 44% (54 requests) were made to Demandware.edgesuite.net and 6% (7 requests) were made to Match.adsrvr.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Rodales.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (61%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Rodales.com main page is 3.8 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. Javascripts take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 241.9 kB

  • Original 294.8 kB
  • After minification 234.1 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 60.6 kB, which is 21% 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 241.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 31.9 kB

  • Original 765.2 kB
  • After minification 733.3 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. Rodales images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 641.4 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 1.8 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 298.6 kB

  • Original 348.9 kB
  • After minification 314.8 kB
  • After compression 50.3 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. Rodales.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 298.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (69%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rodales. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

rodales.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 Rodales.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 Rodales.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 Rodales. 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: