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sungazette.net

insidenova.com | Northern VA - Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, Stafford. News, events, sports, obituaries

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sungazette.net page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Sungazette.net rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

sungazette.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sungazette.net

58 ms

www.insidenova.com

199 ms

jquery-ui-default.min.css

72 ms

ads.min.css

59 ms

navigation.core.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 258 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sungazette.net, 34% (87 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 6% (16 requests) were made to Ce.lijit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (561 ms) relates to the external source Bc.ixiaa.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (59%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Sungazette.net 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. 80% 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 279.9 kB

  • Original 328.9 kB
  • After minification 253.2 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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 75.7 kB, which is 23% 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 279.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 61.3 kB

  • Original 653.7 kB
  • After minification 592.4 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. Sungazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 924.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 435.2 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 924.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 404.8 kB

  • Original 475.2 kB
  • After minification 415.0 kB
  • After compression 70.3 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. Sungazette.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 404.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 153 (67%)

Requests Now

227

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 227 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sungazette. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 76 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sungazette.net SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sungazette.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sungazette.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 data is detected on the main page of Sungazette. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: