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press.exploratorium.edu

Welcome to the Press Office | Exploratorium

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

557 ms

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The Exploratorium celebrates the role a free press plays in cultivating an informed, curious, and confident society. Our press office exists to help working journalists find stories worth telling, acc...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Press.exploratorium.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

press.exploratorium.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

press.exploratorium.edu

196 ms

press-office

230 ms

zky1mem.js

69 ms

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139 ms

css_wopObPmPKhp9cY2QbpKp2u7mlNcVFBQTmjG2vrzt164.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Press.exploratorium.edu, 74% (68 requests) were made to Exploratorium.edu and 17% (16 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) relates to the external source Exploratorium.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (52%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Press.exploratorium.edu main page is 2.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 151.2 kB

  • Original 178.2 kB
  • After minification 174.1 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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 151.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 977.1 kB
  • After minification 890.3 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. Press Exploratorium images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 971.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 898.4 kB
  • After compression 263.7 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 971.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 103.1 kB

  • Original 124.5 kB
  • After minification 119.9 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. Press.exploratorium.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 103.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (69%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Press Exploratorium. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

press.exploratorium.edu 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 Press.exploratorium.edu 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 Press.exploratorium.edu 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 Press Exploratorium. 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: