Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

412 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.militarytimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 230 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forums.militarytimes.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

activity.php

230 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

30 ms

vbulletin-core.js

111 ms

main-rollup.css

82 ms

metro_theme_prefooter_blocks.css

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Forums.militarytimes.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Atpco.ur.gcion.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (230 ms) belongs to the original domain Forums.militarytimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 402.7 kB (75%)

Content Size

539.2 kB

After Optimization

136.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Forums.militarytimes.com main page is 539.2 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 380.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 53.3 kB
  • After minification 49.0 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 43.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 14.2 kB
  • After minification 11.5 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. Obviously, Forums Militarytimes needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 283.0 kB

  • Original 380.1 kB
  • After minification 339.2 kB
  • After compression 97.1 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 283.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 73.9 kB

  • Original 91.6 kB
  • After minification 89.5 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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. Forums.militarytimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (63%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Militarytimes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

forums.militarytimes.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 Forums.militarytimes.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 Forums.militarytimes.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 Forums Militarytimes. 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: