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hostgator.com.au

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Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

757 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

425 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostgator.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 757 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hostgator.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hostgator.com.au

757 ms

redirect.cgi

609 ms

hostgator.com

12 ms

www.hostgator.com

34 ms

entry.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hostgator.com.au, 26% (31 requests) were made to Hostgator.com and 10% (12 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (757 ms) belongs to the original domain Hostgator.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 881.6 kB (54%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

757.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hostgator.com.au main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 975.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 47.2 kB

  • Original 62.0 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 47.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 427.4 kB
  • After minification 421.7 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. Hostgator images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 684.3 kB

  • Original 975.7 kB
  • After minification 755.2 kB
  • After compression 291.4 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 684.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 144.4 kB

  • Original 173.9 kB
  • After minification 172.1 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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. Hostgator.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 144.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (73%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hostgator. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

hostgator.com.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hostgator.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Hostgator.com.au 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 Hostgator. 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: