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dallasblog.com

Dallasblog.com, the Dallas, Texas news blog and Dallas, Texas information source for the DFW Metroplex. - DALLAS BLOG - Dallas Blog Contents

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

153 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

673 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dallasblog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 153 ms and then it took 3.7 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

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Network Requests Diagram

dallasblog.com

153 ms

www.dallasblog.com

925 ms

style.css

217 ms

comment_style.css

146 ms

ajax_1.2.js

219 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Dallasblog.com, 11% (6 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Dallasblog.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 349.4 kB (51%)

Content Size

683.1 kB

After Optimization

333.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Dallasblog.com main page is 683.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 403.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 83.5 kB

  • Original 102.7 kB
  • After minification 98.5 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 83.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 155.7 kB

  • Original 403.5 kB
  • After minification 247.8 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. Obviously, Dallasblog needs image optimization as it can save up to 155.7 kB or 39% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 70.3 kB

  • Original 129.8 kB
  • After minification 121.0 kB
  • After compression 59.5 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 70.3 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 47.0 kB
  • After minification 36.6 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. Dallasblog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (42%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dallasblog. 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 5 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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dallasblog.com 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 Dallasblog.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dallasblog. 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: