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publications.lakeforest.edu

Lake Forest College Publications | Lake Forest College Research

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

475 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

181 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Publications.lakeforest.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 475 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

publications.lakeforest.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

publications.lakeforest.edu

475 ms

yui-min.js

10 ms

ir-style.css

229 ms

ir-custom.css

440 ms

ir-local.css

447 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Publications.lakeforest.edu, 10% (7 requests) were made to Assets.bepress.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Yui.yahooapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Publications.lakeforest.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 286.1 kB (32%)

Content Size

896.4 kB

After Optimization

610.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Publications.lakeforest.edu main page is 896.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 515.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 92.3 kB

  • Original 115.0 kB
  • After minification 106.9 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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 92.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 515.3 kB
  • After minification 503.6 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. Publications Lake Forest images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 84 B

  • Original 46.8 kB
  • After minification 46.8 kB
  • After compression 46.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 182.0 kB

  • Original 219.3 kB
  • After minification 165.0 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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. Publications.lakeforest.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 182.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (71%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Publications Lake Forest. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

publications.lakeforest.edu 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 Publications.lakeforest.edu 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 Publications.lakeforest.edu 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 Publications Lake Forest. 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: