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steve.grc.com

Steve (GRC) Gibson's Blog | Steve's Public Brain Dumping Ground (watch where you step!)

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

281 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Steve.grc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 281 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

steve.grc.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

steve.grc.com

281 ms

style.css

130 ms

156 ms

166 ms

style.css

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Steve.grc.com, 17% (8 requests) were made to Agilesynapse.files.wordpress.com and 15% (7 requests) were made to S1.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (608 ms) relates to the external source Grc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 449.7 kB (56%)

Content Size

801.2 kB

After Optimization

351.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Steve.grc.com main page is 801.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 449.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 79.1 kB

  • Original 103.8 kB
  • After minification 101.2 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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 79.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 201.3 kB
  • After minification 197.5 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. Steve GRC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 334.8 kB

  • Original 449.6 kB
  • After minification 339.9 kB
  • After compression 114.7 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 334.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 44.0 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Steve.grc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (59%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Steve GRC. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

steve.grc.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 Steve.grc.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 Steve.grc.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 Steve GRC. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: