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kplu.org

KPLU.org

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

613 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kplu.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 2.5 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

kplu.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

kplu.org

1005 ms

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23 ms

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29 ms

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42 ms

css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Kplu.org, 36% (24 requests) were made to Mediad.publicbroadcasting.net and 10% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Kplu.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (34%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Kplu.org main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 59.3 kB

  • Original 76.0 kB
  • After minification 73.2 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 59.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. KPLU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 543.0 kB

  • Original 790.6 kB
  • After minification 702.1 kB
  • After compression 247.6 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 543.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 449.5 kB

  • Original 529.9 kB
  • After minification 525.2 kB
  • After compression 80.3 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. Kplu.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 449.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (50%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KPLU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

kplu.org SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kplu.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Kplu.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 KPLU. 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: