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gazette.net

Maryland Community News in Montgomery County and Prince George's County -- Gazette.Net

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

864 ms

Page Rendered

85 ms

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Maryland Community News in Montgomery County and Prince George's County -- Gazette.Net

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gazette.net page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 949 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

www.gazette.net

188 ms

globals2010.js

13 ms

localjquerymini.js

12 ms

pollMiniAjax.js

10 ms

flowplayer-3.1.0.min.js

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Gazette.net, 6% (2 requests) were made to Nbcwashington.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (300 ms) relates to the external source Nbcwashington.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 317.9 kB (51%)

Content Size

627.3 kB

After Optimization

309.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Gazette.net main page is 627.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 232.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 13.0 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 1.8 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 9.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 232.2 kB
  • After minification 215.9 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. Gazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 141.2 kB

  • Original 204.7 kB
  • After minification 185.5 kB
  • After compression 63.5 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 141.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 150.7 kB

  • Original 177.4 kB
  • After minification 121.0 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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. Gazette.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 150.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (80%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gazette. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Gazette.net 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 Gazette.net 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 Gazette. 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: