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downtheroad.org

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Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

723 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

496 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Downtheroad.org page load time and found that the first response time was 723 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

downtheroad.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

downtheroad.org

723 ms

show_ads.js

58 ms

poweredby_FFFFFF.gif

74 ms

all.js

274 ms

majjphh_small.jpg

185 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Downtheroad.org, 31% (37 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Downtheroad.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 105.6 kB (15%)

Content Size

682.0 kB

After Optimization

576.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Downtheroad.org main page is 682.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 562.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 50.5 kB

  • Original 65.9 kB
  • After minification 62.6 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 50.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 28.4 kB

  • Original 562.4 kB
  • After minification 534.0 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. Downtheroad images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 53.4 kB
  • After minification 49.6 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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 26.7 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 322 B
  • After minification 322 B
  • After compression 245 B

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. Downtheroad.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77 B or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (41%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

68

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Downtheroad. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

downtheroad.org SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Downtheroad.org 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 Downtheroad.org main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Downtheroad. 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: