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iowastem.org

Iowa STEM Home | Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

368 ms

iowastem.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iowastem.org page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iowastem.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

iowastem.org

183 ms

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65 ms

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148 ms

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186 ms

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182 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Iowastem.org, 55% (69 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (939 ms) belongs to the original domain Iowastem.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 542.3 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Iowastem.org main page is 1.7 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. 85% 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 993.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 75.3 kB

  • Original 90.4 kB
  • After minification 82.0 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 75.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 103.1 kB

  • Original 993.6 kB
  • After minification 890.5 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. Iowa STEM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 51.9 kB

  • Original 196.1 kB
  • After minification 196.1 kB
  • After compression 144.2 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 51.9 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 312.0 kB

  • Original 408.3 kB
  • After minification 408.1 kB
  • After compression 96.3 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. Iowastem.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 312.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (48%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iowa STEM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

iowastem.org 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 Iowastem.org 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 Iowastem.org 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 Iowa STEM. 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: