Report Summary

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anandtech.com

AnandTech: Hardware News and Tech Reviews Since 1997

Page Load Speed

109.8 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

66.5 sec

Page Rendered

43.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Anandtech.com page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 109.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

anandtech.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

anandtech.com

98 ms

www.anandtech.com

307 ms

mobile.min.js

92 ms

atfonts.css

123 ms

css

506 ms

Our browser made a total of 242 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Anandtech.com, 8% (20 requests) were made to Images.anandtech.com and 5% (12 requests) were made to Cdn.flashtalking.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.6 sec) relates to the external source Ml314.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (43%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Anandtech.com main page is 5.0 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. 80% 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 91.1 kB

  • Original 114.4 kB
  • After minification 99.4 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 15.0 kB, which is 13% 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 91.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 157.0 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Anand Tech images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 730.7 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 1.4 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 440.5 kB

  • Original 514.7 kB
  • After minification 505.1 kB
  • After compression 74.2 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. Anandtech.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 440.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 161 (74%)

Requests Now

218

After Optimization

57

The browser has sent 218 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Anand Tech. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 71 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

anandtech.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Anandtech.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Anandtech.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 Anand Tech. 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: