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googlegroups.com

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Page Load Speed

30.2 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

27.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.7 sec

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About Website

Visit googlegroups.com now to see the best up-to-date Google Groups content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about googlegroups.com

Google Groups allows you to create and participate in online forums and email-based groups with a rich experience for community conversations.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Googlegroups.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 30.1 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. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

googlegroups.com

129 ms

homeredir

89 ms

homeredir

606 ms

454 ms

g-button.css

788 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Googlegroups.com, 56% (5 requests) were made to Groups.google.com and 22% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Ssl.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.4 MB (65%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Googlegroups.com main page is 6.8 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 6.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 119.8 kB
  • After minification 119.7 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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 86.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 395.5 kB
  • After minification 387.3 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. Google Groups images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 4.3 MB

  • Original 6.3 MB
  • After minification 6.3 MB
  • After compression 2.0 MB

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 4.3 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 143 B

  • Original 754 B
  • After minification 711 B
  • After compression 611 B

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. Googlegroups.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 143 B or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Google Groups. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Googlegroups.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Googlegroups.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 Google Groups. 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: