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caribu.be

My blog – Just another WordPress site

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

237 ms

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About Website

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CARIBU is an Erasmus Mundus Action 2 (EMA2) partnership program that aims at increasing academic mobility, research and capacity building opportunities between 8 EU universities and countries from the...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Caribu.be page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

caribu.be performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.caribu.be

1217 ms

language-selector.css

165 ms

animate.min.css

260 ms

normalize.css

173 ms

main.css

257 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Caribu.be, 20% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Caribu.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 156.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

638.0 kB

After Optimization

481.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Caribu.be main page is 638.0 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 487.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.8 kB, which is 13% 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 15.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 46.5 kB

  • Original 487.3 kB
  • After minification 440.8 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. Caribu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 36.1 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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 14.6 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 90.0 kB
  • After minification 73.4 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. Caribu.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (43%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Caribu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

caribu.be SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    NL

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Caribu.be can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Dutch 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 Caribu.be 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 Caribu. 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: