Report Summary

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

977 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Illawarramercury2.digitaleditions.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 977 ms and then it took 5.4 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

illawarramercury2.digitaleditions.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

illawarramercury2.digitaleditions.com.au

977 ms

stylesheet3.css

505 ms

buttons.css

716 ms

stylesheet.css

484 ms

typeface-0.15.js

999 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Illawarramercury2.digitaleditions.com.au, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Theage.digitaleditions.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Illawarramercury2.digitaleditions.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 254.9 kB (32%)

Content Size

803.6 kB

After Optimization

548.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Illawarramercury2.digitaleditions.com.au main page is 803.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 451.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 12.3 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 4.1 kB, which is 25% 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 11.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 451.3 kB
  • After minification 448.2 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. Illawarramercury 2 Digitaleditions images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 212.6 kB

  • Original 304.1 kB
  • After minification 249.8 kB
  • After compression 91.6 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 212.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 31.9 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. Illawarramercury2.digitaleditions.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (35%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Illawarramercury 2 Digitaleditions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

illawarramercury2.digitaleditions.com.au SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Illawarramercury2.digitaleditions.com.au 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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Illawarramercury2.digitaleditions.com.au 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 Illawarramercury 2 Digitaleditions. 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: