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A Better Mess: Productivity, Creativity, Geekery and Struggle with Michael Schechter

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

769 ms

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About Website

Visit bettermess.com now to see the best up-to-date Better Mess content for Japan and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bettermess.com

Tips and tales from Michael Schechter, a Mac loving, ADHD addled, technology dependent, human being who shares his everyday struggle with productivity and

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bettermess.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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1033 ms

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121 ms

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131 ms

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731 ms

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135 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Bettermess.com, 13% (7 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 13% (7 requests) were made to Linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Bettermess.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.4 kB (54%)

Content Size

602.2 kB

After Optimization

279.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bettermess.com main page is 602.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 243.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 122.1 kB

  • Original 146.1 kB
  • After minification 144.1 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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 122.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 243.3 kB
  • After minification 194.9 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, Better Mess needs image optimization as it can save up to 48.5 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 109.5 kB

  • Original 161.1 kB
  • After minification 125.5 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 109.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 45.8 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. Bettermess.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (61%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Better Mess. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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1033 ms

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SEO Factors

bettermess.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 Bettermess.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 Bettermess.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Better Mess. 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: