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quickfacts.census.gov

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Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

174 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Quickfacts.census.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

quickfacts.census.gov

146 ms

index.html

34 ms

style.css

629 ms

menus.css

25 ms

ruthsarian_utilities.js

618 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Quickfacts.census.gov, 52% (23 requests) were made to Census.gov and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (922 ms) belongs to the original domain Quickfacts.census.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 707.2 kB (77%)

Content Size

923.6 kB

After Optimization

216.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Quickfacts.census.gov main page is 923.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 595.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 200.0 kB

  • Original 229.4 kB
  • After minification 185.5 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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 43.9 kB, which is 19% 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 200.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 47.7 kB
  • After minification 34.6 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. Obviously, Quick Facts Census needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.1 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 450.3 kB

  • Original 595.1 kB
  • After minification 448.4 kB
  • After compression 144.8 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 450.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 51.4 kB
  • After minification 28.2 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. Quickfacts.census.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (39%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Quick Facts Census. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 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 Quickfacts.census.gov 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 Quickfacts.census.gov 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 Quick Facts Census. 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: