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sthweb.bu.edu

Dictionary of African Christian Biography

Page Load Speed

565 ms in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

313 ms

Page Rendered

183 ms

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The DACB records the untold stories of African Christians who have transformed the history of the African church and transformed Christian history. The Dictionary of African Christian Biography is a n...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sthweb.bu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 496 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sthweb.bu.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sthweb.bu.edu

69 ms

dacb-styles2.css

32 ms

Screen.css

43 ms

anylinkmenu.css

34 ms

menucontents.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Sthweb.bu.edu, 4% (1 request) were made to Statcounter.com and 4% (1 request) were made to C.statcounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (122 ms) belongs to the original domain Sthweb.bu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.4 kB (25%)

Content Size

230.2 kB

After Optimization

172.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Sthweb.bu.edu main page is 230.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 177.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 17.7 kB
  • After minification 17.0 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 12.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 177.3 kB
  • After minification 149.5 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, Sthweb Bu needs image optimization as it can save up to 27.8 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 31.1 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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 14.0 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 982 B

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. Sthweb.bu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (13%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sthweb Bu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sthweb.bu.edu SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sthweb.bu.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sthweb.bu.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sthweb Bu. 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: