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maineelections.bangordailynews.com

Maine news, sports, politics and obituaries — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine

Page Load Speed

11.2 sec in total

First Response

343 ms

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Maineelections.bangordailynews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 343 ms and then it took 10.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Maineelections.bangordailynews.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

maineelections.bangordailynews.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

maineelections.bangordailynews.com

343 ms

dashicons.min.css

40 ms

thickbox.css

38 ms

font-awesome.css

55 ms

sharebar.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 202 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Maineelections.bangordailynews.com, 12% (24 requests) were made to Static.bangordailynews.com and 6% (13 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source Wgme.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 MB (71%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Maineelections.bangordailynews.com main page is 4.0 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. CSS take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 296.0 kB

  • Original 322.0 kB
  • After minification 232.5 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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 89.5 kB, which is 28% 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 296.0 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 251.2 kB
  • After minification 228.8 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. Maine Elections Bangor Daily News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 461.2 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 1.0 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 463.8 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. Maineelections.bangordailynews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 124 (72%)

Requests Now

172

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 172 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maine Elections Bangor Daily News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 65 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS 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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Maineelections.bangordailynews.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 Maineelections.bangordailynews.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 Maine Elections Bangor Daily News. 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: