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gopicks.com

Marc Lawrence's Playbook: Free and Guaranteed Picks, Sports Handicapping Experts, articles, analysis and insight on professional sports betting.

Page Load Speed

13.7 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gopicks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 10.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gopicks.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gopicks.com

3036 ms

default.css

1187 ms

layout2014.css

524 ms

bannerad3.js

458 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

1178 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Gopicks.com, 24% (12 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) relates to the external source Media.commission.bz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 169.5 kB (37%)

Content Size

462.0 kB

After Optimization

292.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Gopicks.com main page is 462.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 241.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 31.6 kB
  • After minification 29.9 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 24.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 241.0 kB
  • After minification 235.0 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. Go Picks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 82.0 kB
  • After minification 81.0 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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 45.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 93.8 kB

  • Original 107.4 kB
  • After minification 97.8 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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. Gopicks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (40%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go Picks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gopicks.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 Gopicks.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 data is detected on the main page of Go Picks. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: