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ohiostatealumni.org

Alumni Association - The Ohio State University | Ohio State Alumni Association

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

292 ms

About Website

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800-678-6355 – Welcome home to The Ohio State University. Join more than 500,000 alumni to celebrate Buckeye pride and rich traditions through events, tours, activities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ohiostatealumni.org page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ohiostatealumni.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

ohiostatealumni.org

82 ms

94 ms

332 ms

webfonts.css

53 ms

bootstrap-blockgrid.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ohiostatealumni.org, 86% (78 requests) were made to Osu.edu and 4% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (876 ms) relates to the external source Osu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 164.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Ohiostatealumni.org main page is 2.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 38.9 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 43.7 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 6.2 kB, which is 13% 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 38.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 112.3 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB

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. Ohio State Alumni images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 135.5 kB
  • After minification 135.5 kB
  • After compression 130.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 71.4 kB
  • After minification 71.4 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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. Ohiostatealumni.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.5 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (29%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ohio State Alumni. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ohiostatealumni.org SEO score

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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 Ohiostatealumni.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 Ohiostatealumni.org 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 Ohio State Alumni. 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: