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help.elance.com

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

106 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Help.elance.com page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 3.5 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

help.elance.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

help.elance.com

86 ms

hc

113 ms

en-us

215 ms

application-80c7aad11baf60732a806f5ba7f66d94.css

60 ms

style-0cfac53912d08f62ff280b8a0499ad87.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Help.elance.com, 30% (10 requests) were made to P5.zdassets.com and 18% (6 requests) were made to P1.zdassets.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source P5.zdassets.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 583.9 kB (69%)

Content Size

846.6 kB

After Optimization

262.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Help.elance.com main page is 846.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 765.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 17.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 530.0 kB

  • Original 765.9 kB
  • After minification 765.1 kB
  • After compression 236.0 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 530.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 36.4 kB

  • Original 56.0 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. Help.elance.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (50%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Help 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

help.elance.com SEO score

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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 Help.elance.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 Help.elance.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 Help 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: