Report Summary

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updates.gizmodo.com

Gizmodo.com Updates

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

746 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Updates.gizmodo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 259 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

updates.gizmodo.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

updates.gizmodo.com

259 ms

pre_tumblelog.js

20 ms

sxs3fmc.js

124 ms

jquery.min.js

7 ms

tumblelog_post_message_queue.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Updates.gizmodo.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Assets.tumblr.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (679 ms) relates to the external source 33.media.tumblr.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (40%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Updates.gizmodo.com main page is 3.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 80.8 kB

  • Original 98.9 kB
  • After minification 94.9 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 80.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Updates Gizmodo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 920.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 467.8 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 920.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 306.2 kB

  • Original 360.7 kB
  • After minification 360.5 kB
  • After compression 54.5 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. Updates.gizmodo.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 306.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (44%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Updates Gizmodo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

updates.gizmodo.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 Updates.gizmodo.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 Updates.gizmodo.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 Updates Gizmodo. 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: