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aloftraleigh.com

Hotel across from NC State University | Aloft Raleigh

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aloftraleigh.com page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aloftraleigh.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

aloftraleigh.com

37 ms

www.aloftraleigh.com

13 ms

268 ms

marriottCommon.js

197 ms

clientlib-base.min.569a20d572bd560535b3c0a54ddfbdfc.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Aloftraleigh.com, 55% (41 requests) were made to Cache.marriott.com and 35% (26 requests) were made to Marriott.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Cache.marriott.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 970.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

20.6 MB

After Optimization

19.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Aloftraleigh.com main page is 20.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 19.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 176.6 kB

  • Original 203.2 kB
  • After minification 173.3 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 29.9 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 176.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 19.3 MB
  • After minification 19.3 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. Aloft Raleigh images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 794.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 306.6 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 794.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (38%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aloft Raleigh. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

aloftraleigh.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 Aloftraleigh.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 Aloftraleigh.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 Aloft Raleigh. 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: