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elance.com

Upwork | The World’s Work Marketplace for Freelancing

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elance.com page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

elance.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

elance.com

161 ms

www.elance.com

49 ms

mm-compressed-rebranded.css

29 ms

modernizr.js

25 ms

cobranding.js

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Elance.com, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (434 ms) relates to the external source Ws.elance.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

816.6 kB

After Optimization

505.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Elance.com main page is 816.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 500.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 25.9 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. 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 17.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 289.8 kB
  • After minification 289.8 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. Elance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 293.1 kB

  • Original 500.0 kB
  • After minification 488.1 kB
  • After compression 206.9 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 293.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 500 B

  • Original 766 B
  • After minification 700 B
  • After compression 266 B

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. Elance.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 500 B or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (68%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

elance.com

elance.com

161 ms

www.elance.com

www.elance.com

49 ms

mm-compressed-rebranded.css

mm-compressed-rebranded.css

29 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

25 ms

cobranding.js

cobranding.js

15 ms

elogger.js

elogger.js

14 ms

1124800006.js

1124800006.js

268 ms

css

css

106 ms

ga.js

ga.js

43 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

61 ms

homescreen.png

homescreen.png

37 ms

OpportunityIcon.svg

OpportunityIcon.svg

29 ms

SecurityIcon.svg

SecurityIcon.svg

31 ms

ReputationIcon.svg

ReputationIcon.svg

32 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

57 ms

aquant.js

aquant.js

48 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

70 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

77 ms

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pixel;r=255664729;a=p-UK1AjjBBLRAbA;orderid=;revenue=;labels=_fp.event.Homepage;fpan=1;fpa=P0-660809856-1456744281983;ns=0;ce=1;cm=;je=0;sr=1024x768x32;enc=n;dst=0;et=1456744281982;tzo=-180;ref=;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elance.com%2F;ogl=url.https%3A%2F%2Fwww%252Eelance%252Ecom

36 ms

61 ms

149 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

84 ms

68 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

49 ms

elance-upwork-logo.png

elance-upwork-logo.png

28 ms

elance-upwork-logo-footer.png

elance-upwork-logo-footer.png

20 ms

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navsprite-icons.png

19 ms

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27 ms

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34 ms

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34 ms

WRb6.js

WRb6.js

126 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

emc.php

emc.php

434 ms

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29 ms

nr-852.min.js

nr-852.min.js

98 ms

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cfc4f2ccde

121 ms

SEO Factors

elance.com SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Elance.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 Elance.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

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