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aaeconline.org

AAEC - Today's Political Cartoons

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

190 ms

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About Website

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Daily political cartoons by members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC). The site also includes editorial cartoon archives, cartoonist profiles and articles about cartoon news ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aaeconline.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aaeconline.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

editorialcartoonists.com

1677 ms

menu.js

245 ms

SpryMenuBar.js

380 ms

SpryMenuBarHorizontalAAEC.css

250 ms

boxover.js

303 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Aaeconline.org, 5% (2 requests) were made to Nieonline.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Editorialcartoonists.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 118.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

536.0 kB

After Optimization

417.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Aaeconline.org main page is 536.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 385.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 61.1 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 69.4 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 61.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 385.8 kB
  • After minification 374.7 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. AAEC Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 31.0 kB

  • Original 56.9 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 31.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Aaeconline.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (42%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AAEC 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

aaeconline.org SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aaeconline.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Aaeconline.org 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 AAEC Online. 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: