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fastcompany.com

Fast Company | Business News, Innovation, Technology, Work Life and Design

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

317 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fastcompany.com page load time and found that the first response time was 317 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fastcompany.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.fastcompany.com

317 ms

container.html

384 ms

gpt.js

502 ms

ash.js

730 ms

script.js

624 ms

Our browser made a total of 146 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Fastcompany.com, 50% (73 requests) were made to Assets.fastcompany.com and 19% (28 requests) were made to Images.fastcompany.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Assets.fastcompany.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (78%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

406.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Fastcompany.com main page is 1.9 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. HTML takes 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 226.2 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 1.5 MB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 50.1 kB
  • After minification 50.1 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 Company images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 133.1 kB
  • After minification 133.1 kB
  • After compression 129.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 101 (77%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fast Company. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 94 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

fastcompany.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 Fastcompany.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 Fastcompany.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 Company. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: