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fast500.com

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Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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The Technology Fast 500 is a ranking of the fastest-growing companies in technology, media, telecom, life sciences, and energy tech in North America.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fast500.com page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fast500.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

fast500.html

98 ms

fast500-apply.html

1063 ms

CrossDomainConsentShare.js

49 ms

otSDKStub.js

116 ms

launch-EN19f66e78030b4550b8aebe191224f207.min.js

310 ms

Our browser made a total of 144 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Fast500.com, 10% (14 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 8% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source S958345745.t.eloqua.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (71%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

661.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Fast500.com main page is 2.3 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. 85% 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 494.5 kB

  • Original 598.1 kB
  • After minification 520.6 kB
  • After compression 103.6 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 77.5 kB, which is 13% 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 494.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 120.2 kB
  • After minification 118.4 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. Fast 500 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 420.3 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 1.1 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 55.2 kB

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 61.0 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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. Fast500.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 55.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 100 (79%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fast 500. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 76 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

fast500.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 Fast500.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 Fast500.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 data is detected on the main page of Fast 500. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: