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chowhound.chow.com

Food and Drink Articles, Videos, Discussions, and More - Chowhound Food Community

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

232 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chowhound.chow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 232 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chowhound.chow.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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232 ms

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Our browser made a total of 163 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Chowhound.chow.com, 7% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 7% (11 requests) were made to Chowstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Chowhound.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (60%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chowhound.chow.com main page is 2.6 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 429.6 kB

  • Original 494.6 kB
  • After minification 452.0 kB
  • After compression 65.0 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. 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 429.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 524.5 kB
  • After minification 521.5 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. Chowhound Chow images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 861.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 428.4 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 861.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 284.7 kB

  • Original 338.0 kB
  • After minification 334.9 kB
  • After compression 53.2 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. Chowhound.chow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 284.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 94 (65%)

Requests Now

144

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 144 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chowhound Chow. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

chowhound.chow.com 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 Chowhound.chow.com 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 Chowhound.chow.com 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

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