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lafayette-online.com

Lafayette, West Lafayette Indiana News + Events | Lafayette Online

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

225 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lafayette-online.com page load time and found that the first response time was 173 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

lafayette-online.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

lafayette-online.com

173 ms

www.lafayette-online.com

1376 ms

style.css

71 ms

slider.css

133 ms

dashicons.min.css

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Lafayette-online.com, 13% (10 requests) were made to Lafonline.s3.amazonaws.com and 11% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Lafayette-online.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 842.6 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

616.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Lafayette-online.com main page is 1.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 968.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 95.1 kB

  • Original 130.7 kB
  • After minification 127.3 kB
  • After compression 35.6 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 95.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 194.0 kB
  • After minification 187.0 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. Lafayette Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 620.3 kB

  • Original 968.6 kB
  • After minification 961.3 kB
  • After compression 348.3 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 620.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 120.2 kB

  • Original 165.6 kB
  • After minification 141.6 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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. Lafayette-online.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (55%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lafayette 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 31 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 Lafayette-online.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 Lafayette-online.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 Lafayette 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: