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support.cox.com

Residential Support Overview | Cox Communications

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

180 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Support.cox.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

support.cox.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

support.cox.com

36 ms

support.cox

1297 ms

presentation.css.jgz

67 ms

OmnitureLibrary.js.jgz

82 ms

lib.js.jgz

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Support.cox.com, 41% (35 requests) were made to Cox.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Cox.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (74%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

555.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Support.cox.com main page is 2.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 79.3 kB
  • After minification 62.1 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.2 kB, which is 22% 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 66.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 73.5 kB
  • After minification 61.5 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, Support Cox needs image optimization as it can save up to 11.9 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

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 422.0 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 1.2 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 304.2 kB

  • Original 363.1 kB
  • After minification 360.2 kB
  • After compression 59.0 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. Support.cox.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 304.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (59%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Support Cox. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

support.cox.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Support.cox.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Support.cox.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 Support Cox. 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: