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smallbusiness.theage.com.au

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Page Load Speed

11 sec in total

First Response

544 ms

Resources Loaded

9.8 sec

Page Rendered

619 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smallbusiness.theage.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 544 ms and then it took 10.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smallbusiness.theage.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

smallbusiness.theage.com.au

544 ms

small-business

3397 ms

device-detect-1.59.2-63.js

77 ms

satelliteLib-fc35eab6559a121532bab25bb77b90e6a30892b9.js

117 ms

common.skin.news_min.css

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 198 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Smallbusiness.theage.com.au, 15% (29 requests) were made to Theage.com.au and 10% (20 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source Theage.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (60%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Smallbusiness.theage.com.au main page is 3.3 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. 85% 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

-83%

Potential reduce by 194.6 kB

  • Original 234.4 kB
  • After minification 200.0 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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 34.4 kB, which is 15% 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 194.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 387.5 kB
  • After minification 373.2 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. Smallbusiness Theage images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 861.1 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 1.5 MB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 276.9 kB

  • Original 343.3 kB
  • After minification 335.4 kB
  • After compression 66.4 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. Smallbusiness.theage.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 276.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 128 (69%)

Requests Now

186

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 186 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smallbusiness Theage. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 84 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Smallbusiness.theage.com.au 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 Smallbusiness.theage.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Smallbusiness Theage. 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: