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birdersconnect.com

Birders Connect - Get connected with other birders worldwide

Page Load Speed

18.4 sec in total

First Response

6.6 sec

Resources Loaded

11.7 sec

Page Rendered

120 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birdersconnect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 6.6 sec and then it took 11.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

birdersconnect.com

6577 ms

mostactiveusers.css

218 ms

bootstrap.css

1236 ms

animate.min.css

1182 ms

bootstrap.min.css

1351 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Birdersconnect.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Birdersconnect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (78%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

334.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Birdersconnect.com main page is 1.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 962.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 4.0 kB, which is 22% 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 15.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 136.4 kB
  • After minification 122.0 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, Birders Connect needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 809.7 kB

  • Original 962.8 kB
  • After minification 566.9 kB
  • After compression 153.0 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 809.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 323.8 kB

  • Original 380.3 kB
  • After minification 352.9 kB
  • After compression 56.5 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. Birdersconnect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (71%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birders Connect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Birdersconnect.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 Birdersconnect.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 Birders Connect. 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: