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homes.startribune.com

Homes in Minnesota - Minneapolis, St Paul, & the Twin Cities area | StarTribune.com

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

204 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homes.startribune.com page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homes.startribune.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

search

276 ms

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61 ms

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88 ms

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112 ms

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110 ms

Our browser made a total of 175 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Homes.startribune.com, 25% (43 requests) were made to Assets.startribune.com and 16% (28 requests) were made to Optimized-by.rubiconproject.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Apps.startribune.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (70%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

556.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homes.startribune.com main page is 1.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 834.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 208.7 kB

  • Original 243.8 kB
  • After minification 219.2 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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 208.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 214.8 kB

  • Original 373.0 kB
  • After minification 158.3 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, Homes Star Tribune needs image optimization as it can save up to 214.8 kB or 58% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 527.3 kB

  • Original 834.7 kB
  • After minification 829.6 kB
  • After compression 307.4 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 527.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 320.2 kB

  • Original 376.0 kB
  • After minification 372.8 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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. Homes.startribune.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 320.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 92 (56%)

Requests Now

165

After Optimization

73

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 165 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homes Star Tribune. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 66 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

homes.startribune.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 Homes.startribune.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 Homes.startribune.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 data is detected on the main page of Homes Star Tribune. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: