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philforum.berkeley.edu

Open Computing Facility at UC Berkeley

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

655 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

653 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Philforum.berkeley.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 655 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

philforum.berkeley.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

philforum.berkeley.edu

655 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

222 ms

pro.css

240 ms

style.css

243 ms

dashicons.min.css

363 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Philforum.berkeley.edu, 18% (6 requests) were made to Ocf.berkeley.edu and 3% (1 request) were made to I.imgur.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Ocf.berkeley.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 223.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Philforum.berkeley.edu main page is 2.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 19.3 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 2.4 kB, which is 11% 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 16.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Philforum Berkeley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 122.8 kB

  • Original 177.2 kB
  • After minification 174.7 kB
  • After compression 54.4 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 122.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 80.6 kB

  • Original 123.6 kB
  • After minification 105.2 kB
  • After compression 43.1 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. Philforum.berkeley.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 80.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (48%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Philforum Berkeley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 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 Philforum.berkeley.edu 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 Philforum.berkeley.edu 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 Philforum Berkeley. 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: