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news.mcdonalds.com

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Page Load Speed

19.6 sec in total

First Response

676 ms

Resources Loaded

18.6 sec

Page Rendered

290 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.mcdonalds.com page load time and found that the first response time was 676 ms and then it took 18.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.mcdonalds.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

news.mcdonalds.com

676 ms

css

24 ms

application.css

78 ms

mobile.css

49 ms

unipager.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 156 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original News.mcdonalds.com, 12% (18 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 8% (13 requests) were made to Linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (17.7 sec) relates to the external source Api.flickr.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 936.7 kB (41%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of News.mcdonalds.com main page is 2.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 234.7 kB

  • Original 289.6 kB
  • After minification 284.6 kB
  • After compression 54.9 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 234.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 57.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. News Mcdonalds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 591.4 kB

  • Original 857.8 kB
  • After minification 833.4 kB
  • After compression 266.4 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 591.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 53.1 kB

  • Original 66.0 kB
  • After minification 53.9 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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. News.mcdonalds.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (43%)

Requests Now

153

After Optimization

87

The browser has sent 153 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Mcdonalds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 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 News.mcdonalds.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 News.mcdonalds.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 News Mcdonalds. 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: