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blogs.buffalonews.com

The Buffalo News | Buffalo's Number One Source For Breaking News | The Buffalo Newspaper Online

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

691 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

592 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.buffalonews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 691 ms and then it took 3.3 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

blogs.buffalonews.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blogs.buffalonews.com

691 ms

www.buffalonews.com

127 ms

style.min.css

17 ms

tooltipster.css

14 ms

alerts-reg.min.css

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.buffalonews.com, 35% (54 requests) were made to Buffalonews.com and 13% (20 requests) were made to Widgets.digitalmediacommunications.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Bngalleries.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (55%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Blogs.buffalonews.com main page is 4.5 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. 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 156.0 kB

  • Original 183.0 kB
  • After minification 132.9 kB
  • After compression 27.1 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 50.1 kB, which is 27% 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 156.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 134.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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, Blogs Buffalo News needs image optimization as it can save up to 134.9 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

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 793.8 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 1.7 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 487.9 kB

  • Original 583.7 kB
  • After minification 529.9 kB
  • After compression 95.8 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. Blogs.buffalonews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 487.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (57%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Buffalo News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 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 Blogs.buffalonews.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 Blogs.buffalonews.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 Blogs Buffalo News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: