Report Summary

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blog.housenet.com.au

Neighbours: a blog on local social networking & neighbourhood life

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

513 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.housenet.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.housenet.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blog.housenet.com.au

1693 ms

css.css

463 ms

styles.css

463 ms

jquery.js

1161 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

472 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.housenet.com.au, 12% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Blog.housenet.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 230.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.housenet.com.au main page is 1.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 955.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 42.1 kB
  • After minification 41.2 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 34.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 42.5 kB

  • Original 955.8 kB
  • After minification 913.3 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. Blog Housenet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 134.7 kB

  • Original 212.1 kB
  • After minification 212.1 kB
  • After compression 77.4 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 134.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Blog.housenet.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (18%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Housenet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts 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 Blog.housenet.com.au 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 Blog.housenet.com.au 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 Blog Housenet. 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: