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mindat.org

Mindat.org - Mines, Minerals and More

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

213 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mindat.org page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mindat.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

mindat.org

205 ms

www.mindat.org

324 ms

mindat.css

229 ms

jquery-ui.css

198 ms

jquery-ui.theme.css

196 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Mindat.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (826 ms) belongs to the original domain Mindat.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 624.8 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Mindat.org main page is 1.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 32.2 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 21.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 111.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 974.4 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. Mindat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 317.8 kB

  • Original 446.6 kB
  • After minification 419.6 kB
  • After compression 128.8 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 317.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 173.8 kB

  • Original 206.2 kB
  • After minification 159.2 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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. Mindat.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 173.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (9%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mindat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

mindat.org SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mindat.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Mindat.org 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 Mindat. 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: