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timesunion.mycapture.com

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Page Load Speed

32.2 sec in total

First Response

3.3 sec

Resources Loaded

28.3 sec

Page Rendered

669 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Timesunion.mycapture.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.3 sec and then it took 29 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

timesunion.mycapture.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

timesunion.mycapture.com

3271 ms

index.aspx

1338 ms

loadAdWiz.js

97 ms

main_style.css

147 ms

s_code.js

128 ms

Our browser made a total of 290 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Timesunion.mycapture.com, 11% (33 requests) were made to Timesunion.com and 7% (19 requests) were made to Photos.mycapture.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Images.chron.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (64%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

894.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Timesunion.mycapture.com 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 67.7 kB

  • Original 80.6 kB
  • After minification 74.3 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 67.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 192.3 kB
  • After minification 175.1 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. Times Union Mycapture images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 641.6 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 1.2 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 308.5 kB

  • Original 372.9 kB
  • After minification 365.8 kB
  • After compression 64.4 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. Timesunion.mycapture.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 308.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 187 (72%)

Requests Now

261

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 261 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Times Union Mycapture. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 77 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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Timesunion.mycapture.com 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 Timesunion.mycapture.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Times Union Mycapture. 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: