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firstthought.co

firstthought.co - Registered at Namecheap.com

Page Load Speed

11.2 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

7.9 sec

Page Rendered

647 ms

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About Website

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Chronicling cyberspace with a hint of journalism, a pinch of wit and a smidgen of youthful endeavour. Publishing your work - whimsical, silly and sincere.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstthought.co page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstthought.co performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.firstthought.co

2643 ms

cat-posts.css

205 ms

socialfans-style.css

778 ms

font-awesome.css

6 ms

bootstrap.min.css

783 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Firstthought.co, 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Firstthought.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 898.7 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Firstthought.co main page is 2.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 84.0 kB

  • Original 96.9 kB
  • After minification 92.4 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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 84.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 54.5 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

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. Firstthought images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 280.3 kB

  • Original 456.8 kB
  • After minification 388.3 kB
  • After compression 176.5 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 280.3 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 480.0 kB

  • Original 557.5 kB
  • After minification 473.0 kB
  • After compression 77.6 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. Firstthought.co needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 480.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (55%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firstthought. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

firstthought.co 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 Firstthought.co 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 Firstthought.co 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 Firstthought. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: