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forgetoday.com

Forge Today | Sheffield's campus media | Press, TV and radio | University of Sheffield news

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forgetoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forgetoday.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

forgetoday.com

1278 ms

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350 ms

style.css

353 ms

grid.css

183 ms

responsive.css

181 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Forgetoday.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Forgetoday.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 555.0 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forgetoday.com main page is 1.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 863.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 3.7 kB, which is 14% 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 20.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 863.9 kB
  • After minification 858.7 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. Forge Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 413.9 kB

  • Original 585.2 kB
  • After minification 574.3 kB
  • After compression 171.3 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 413.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 115.3 kB

  • Original 136.0 kB
  • After minification 104.4 kB
  • After compression 20.7 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. Forgetoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 115.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (48%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forge Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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1278 ms

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SEO Factors

forgetoday.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 Forgetoday.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 Forgetoday.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Forge Today. 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: