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freshbooks.com

Invoice and Accounting Software for Small Businesses - FreshBooks

Page Load Speed

32.9 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

12.8 sec

Page Rendered

19.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freshbooks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 32.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freshbooks.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

freshbooks.com

149 ms

www.freshbooks.com

878 ms

jquery.min.js

559 ms

128069571.js

1166 ms

global.js

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Freshbooks.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.4 sec) relates to the external source 128069571.log.optimizely.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 627.7 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Freshbooks.com main page is 2.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 54.1 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 39.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 23.3 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. Fresh Books images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 303.2 kB

  • Original 585.6 kB
  • After minification 578.8 kB
  • After compression 282.3 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 303.2 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 261.4 kB

  • Original 305.3 kB
  • After minification 249.5 kB
  • After compression 43.9 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. Freshbooks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (30%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fresh Books. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

freshbooks.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 Freshbooks.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 Freshbooks.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 description is not detected on the main page of Fresh Books. 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: