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The fascinating history of the Lake Champlain and Lake George region of Vermont and New York State as told by local historian and author James P. Millard and Guest Contributors.

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Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Historiclakes.org, 20% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 20% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Sm3.sitemeter.com.

Content Size

211.2 kB

After Optimization

117.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Historiclakes.org main page is 211.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 139.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

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Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

Original 7.0 kB
After minification 6.4 kB
After compression 2.6 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 4.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

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Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

Original 65.0 kB
After minification 63.1 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. Historic Lakes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

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Potential reduce by 87.1 kB

Original 139.2 kB
After minification 139.2 kB
After compression 52.1 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 87.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Historic Lakes. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Historiclakes.org 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 Historiclakes.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Historic Lakes. 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: