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flightstats.com

FlightStats - Global Flight Status & Tracker, Airport Weather and Delays

Page Load Speed

834 ms in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

561 ms

Page Rendered

74 ms

About Website

Visit flightstats.com now to see the best up-to-date Flight Stats content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about flightstats.com

Track real-time flight status, departures and arrivals, airport delays, and airport information using FlightStats Global Flight Tracker.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flightstats.com page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 635 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

flightstats.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

flightstats.com

199 ms

home.do

98 ms

termsofuseviolation.html

22 ms

mainstyle.css

5 ms

layoutstyle.css

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Flightstats.com, 67% (4 requests) were made to Static.flightstats.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (199 ms) belongs to the original domain Flightstats.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.3 kB (69%)

Content Size

29.4 kB

After Optimization

9.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Flightstats.com main page is 29.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 22.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 812 B

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 339 B, which is 17% 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 1.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 954 B

  • Original 4.9 kB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Obviously, Flight Stats needs image optimization as it can save up to 954 B or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. Flightstats.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flight Stats. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Flightstats.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 Flightstats.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Flight Stats. 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: