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lafargenorthamerica.com

Lafarge in North America - Cement, concrete, aggregates

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

151 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lafargenorthamerica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lafargenorthamerica.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

lafargenorthamerica.com

1708 ms

na

1763 ms

OpenTheImagePopup.js

99 ms

Print.js

155 ms

Resize.js

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Lafargenorthamerica.com, 84% (57 requests) were made to Lafarge-na.com and 12% (8 requests) were made to Customer.lafarge-na.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Lafarge-na.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 256.1 kB (46%)

Content Size

553.1 kB

After Optimization

297.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lafargenorthamerica.com main page is 553.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 221.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 37.3 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 6.8 kB, which is 15% 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 35.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 220.0 kB
  • After minification 205.9 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. Lafarge North America images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 150.5 kB

  • Original 221.3 kB
  • After minification 214.7 kB
  • After compression 70.8 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 150.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 55.7 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 52.2 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. Lafargenorthamerica.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 55.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (76%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lafarge North America. 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 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lafargenorthamerica.com

lafargenorthamerica.com

1708 ms

na

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1763 ms

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99 ms

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155 ms

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157 ms

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168 ms

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167 ms

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255 ms

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84 ms

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210 ms

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107 ms

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68 ms

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69 ms

SEO Factors

lafargenorthamerica.com SEO score

0

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 Lafargenorthamerica.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 Lafargenorthamerica.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

lafargenorthamerica.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lafarge North America. 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: