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wednesdayjournalonline.com

Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest | Cook County, Illinois

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Weekly newspaper from Growing Community Media serving Oak Park and River Forest. We build community through independent, nonpartisan journalism.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wednesdayjournalonline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 4.9 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

wednesdayjournalonline.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.oakpark.com

73 ms

5 ms

42 ms

148 ms

nmedianet.js

158 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Wednesdayjournalonline.com, 12% (9 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Oakpark.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (655 ms) relates to the external source Staticxx.facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (45%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Wednesdayjournalonline.com main page is 3.6 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. 75% 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 133.5 kB

  • Original 173.6 kB
  • After minification 173.1 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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 133.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 248.8 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, Wednesday Journal Online needs image optimization as it can save up to 248.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 874.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 395.8 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 874.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 342.1 kB

  • Original 393.0 kB
  • After minification 384.5 kB
  • After compression 50.9 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. Wednesdayjournalonline.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 342.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (38%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wednesday Journal Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts 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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wednesdayjournalonline.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 Wednesdayjournalonline.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 data is detected on the main page of Wednesday Journal Online. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: