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bestcities.milkeninstitute.org

Best-Performing Cities 2022

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

299 ms

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The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities Index (BPC) compares the recent performance of metro areas throughout the United States. The 2022 index continues a trend noted in last year’s edition: a ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bestcities.milkeninstitute.org page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

bestcities.milkeninstitute.org

162 ms

www.best-cities.org

403 ms

foundation2015.css

669 ms

layout2015.css

288 ms

slick.css

217 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bestcities.milkeninstitute.org, 60% (25 requests) were made to Best-cities.org and 14% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (741 ms) relates to the external source Best-cities.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (54%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Bestcities.milkeninstitute.org main page is 2.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 150.0 kB

  • Original 196.4 kB
  • After minification 194.1 kB
  • After compression 46.4 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 150.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 812.9 kB
  • After minification 789.1 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. Best Cities Milkeninstitute images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 961.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 852.5 kB
  • After compression 269.0 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 961.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 202.5 kB

  • Original 228.3 kB
  • After minification 180.3 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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. Bestcities.milkeninstitute.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (50%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best Cities Milkeninstitute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bestcities.milkeninstitute.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 Bestcities.milkeninstitute.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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