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heraldstaronline.com

News, Sports, Jobs - The Herald Star

Page Load Speed

13.6 sec in total

First Response

232 ms

Resources Loaded

12.7 sec

Page Rendered

597 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heraldstaronline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 232 ms and then it took 13.3 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

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Network Requests Diagram

heraldstaronline.com

232 ms

_defaults.css

107 ms

_layout_v2.css

110 ms

google_service.js

16 ms

_layout_sky.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 359 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Heraldstaronline.com, 8% (29 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (18 requests) were made to Z1.zedo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Cas.criteo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (37%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Heraldstaronline.com main page is 3.2 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. 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 179.0 kB

  • Original 224.6 kB
  • After minification 216.4 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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 179.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 69.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Herald Star Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 937.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 395.5 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 937.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 25.5 kB
  • After minification 21.3 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Heraldstaronline.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 219 (67%)

Requests Now

325

After Optimization

106

The browser has sent 325 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herald Star Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 104 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 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 Heraldstaronline.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 Heraldstaronline.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 Herald Star Online. 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: