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new.aol.com

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed New.aol.com page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

new.aol.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

new.aol.com

34 ms

signup

144 ms

styles.css

59 ms

soundmanager2-nodebug-jsmin.js

69 ms

require.js

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original New.aol.com, 40% (12 requests) were made to Sns-static.aolcdn.com and 23% (7 requests) were made to S.aolcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (658 ms) relates to the external source S.aolcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 433.6 kB (63%)

Content Size

692.1 kB

After Optimization

258.5 kB

In fact, the total size of New.aol.com main page is 692.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 346.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 159.9 kB

  • Original 175.9 kB
  • After minification 116.0 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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 59.8 kB, which is 34% 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 159.9 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 126.3 kB
  • After minification 121.1 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. New AOL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 232.6 kB

  • Original 346.8 kB
  • After minification 345.6 kB
  • After compression 114.2 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 232.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 35.9 kB

  • Original 43.2 kB
  • After minification 35.5 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. New.aol.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (33%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of New AOL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

new.aol.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 New.aol.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 New.aol.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 New AOL. 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: