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User account | Investopedia

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

781 ms

Page Rendered

177 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed External.investopedia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 958 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

external.investopedia.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

user

277 ms

tablet.css

23 ms

jquery.min.js

53 ms

g.js

69 ms

welcomead.js

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original External.investopedia.com, 91% (29 requests) were made to I.investopedia.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (277 ms) belongs to the original domain External.investopedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 454.3 kB (61%)

Content Size

742.1 kB

After Optimization

287.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of External.investopedia.com main page is 742.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 294.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 49.0 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.5 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 38.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 135.7 kB
  • After minification 103.1 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. Obviously, External Investopedia needs image optimization as it can save up to 32.6 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 162.8 kB

  • Original 294.1 kB
  • After minification 268.1 kB
  • After compression 131.4 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 162.8 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 220.3 kB

  • Original 263.3 kB
  • After minification 261.9 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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. External.investopedia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 220.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (33%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of External Investopedia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

user

user

277 ms

tablet.css

tablet.css

23 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

53 ms

g.js

g.js

69 ms

welcomead.js

welcomead.js

87 ms

var.js

var.js

52 ms

func.js

func.js

72 ms

event.js

event.js

81 ms

Math.uuid.js

Math.uuid.js

86 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

8 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

80 ms

jquery.once.js

jquery.once.js

80 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

212 ms

external_link_blank.js

external_link_blank.js

210 ms

geoip.php

geoip.php

206 ms

logo_white_new.png

logo_white_new.png

88 ms

icon_menu.png

icon_menu.png

89 ms

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89 ms

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91 ms

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91 ms

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90 ms

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91 ms

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icon_search.png

90 ms

icon_user.png

icon_user.png

89 ms

icon_home.png

icon_home.png

88 ms

icon_simulator.png

icon_simulator.png

89 ms

icon_fxtrader.png

icon_fxtrader.png

89 ms

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sprite_icon.png

86 ms

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sourcesanspro-light-webfont.ttf

78 ms

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sourcesanspro-semibold-webfont.ttf

81 ms

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81 ms

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gandhiserif-regular-webfont.ttf

12 ms

SEO Factors

external.investopedia.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 External.investopedia.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 External.investopedia.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of External Investopedia. 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: