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events.cbs2iowa.com

Cedar Rapids News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KGAN

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

302 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Events.cbs2iowa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Events.cbs2iowa.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

events.cbs2iowa.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

events.cbs2iowa.com

1038 ms

font-awesome.css

252 ms

admin.css

188 ms

style.css

1304 ms

font-awesome.css

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Events.cbs2iowa.com, 12% (10 requests) were made to Cbs2iowa.com and 11% (9 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Reddit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 932.6 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

493.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Events.cbs2iowa.com main page is 1.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 171.0 kB

  • Original 219.1 kB
  • After minification 212.9 kB
  • After compression 48.1 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. 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 171.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 64.2 kB
  • After minification 58.6 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. Events Cbs 2 Iowa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 694.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 372.6 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 694.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 61.7 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 68.0 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Events.cbs2iowa.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (55%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Events Cbs 2 Iowa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Events.cbs2iowa.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 Events.cbs2iowa.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 description is not detected on the main page of Events Cbs 2 Iowa. 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: