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travel.ticotimes.net

TRAVEL ALERT: Heavy rains close road to Arenal Volcano – The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

716 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Travel.ticotimes.net page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

travel.ticotimes.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

travel.ticotimes.net

120 ms

544 ms

style.css

33 ms

pgwslideshow.min.css

138 ms

style.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Travel.ticotimes.net, 91% (50 requests) were made to Ticotimes.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (544 ms) relates to the external source Ticotimes.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 330.6 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Travel.ticotimes.net main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 44.9 kB
  • After minification 38.6 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 6.3 kB, which is 14% 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 37.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 58.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. TRAVEL Tico Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 166.9 kB

  • Original 270.9 kB
  • After minification 250.3 kB
  • After compression 104.0 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 166.9 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 67.5 kB

  • Original 79.5 kB
  • After minification 61.3 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. Travel.ticotimes.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 67.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (54%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TRAVEL Tico Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Travel.ticotimes.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 Travel.ticotimes.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 data is detected on the main page of TRAVEL Tico Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: