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data.sparkfun.com

SparkFun Electronics

Page Load Speed

12.4 sec in total

First Response

3.5 sec

Resources Loaded

8.8 sec

Page Rendered

160 ms

About Website

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SparkFun is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make your electronics projects possible.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Data.sparkfun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.5 sec and then it took 8.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

data.sparkfun.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

data.sparkfun.com

3517 ms

phant.min.css

80 ms

js

52 ms

phant-manager.min.js

69 ms

css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Data.sparkfun.com, 36% (5 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) belongs to the original domain Data.sparkfun.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 495.3 kB (67%)

Content Size

742.2 kB

After Optimization

246.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Data.sparkfun.com main page is 742.2 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 732.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 8.4 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 1.3 kB, which is 14% 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 6.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 488.8 kB

  • Original 732.4 kB
  • After minification 732.4 kB
  • After compression 243.6 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 488.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (50%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Data Spark Fun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

data.sparkfun.com 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 Data.sparkfun.com 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 Data.sparkfun.com 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 Data Spark Fun. 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: