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thefreelibrary.com

Free News, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, Reference Articles and Classic Books - Free Online Library

Page Load Speed

18.1 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

7.2 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefreelibrary.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 18 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thefreelibrary.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thefreelibrary.com

90 ms

www.thefreelibrary.com

829 ms

2down.gif

1038 ms

async.js

283 ms

Online-Library.gif

285 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Thefreelibrary.com, 32% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Img.tfd.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Apis.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 407.1 kB (69%)

Content Size

592.3 kB

After Optimization

185.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Thefreelibrary.com main page is 592.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 410.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 142.4 kB

  • Original 172.2 kB
  • After minification 171.8 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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 142.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 622 B

  • Original 10.0 kB
  • After minification 9.4 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. The Free Library images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 264.2 kB

  • Original 410.1 kB
  • After minification 408.6 kB
  • After compression 145.9 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 264.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (70%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Free Library. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thefreelibrary.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 Thefreelibrary.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 Thefreelibrary.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 The Free Library. 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: