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dating.newscientist.com

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

512 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dating.newscientist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 512 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 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

512 ms

49.r20300.css

971 ms

modernizr-latest.min.js

681 ms

functions.r19645.js

680 ms

jquery-2.2.0.min.js

5 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dating.newscientist.com, 77% (27 requests) were made to Is.i2.datinglab.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (971 ms) relates to the external source Is.i2.datinglab.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 437.2 kB (69%)

Content Size

636.1 kB

After Optimization

198.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Dating.newscientist.com main page is 636.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 278.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 49.8 kB
  • After minification 45.8 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 37.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 50.5 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. Dating New Scientist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 185.1 kB

  • Original 278.2 kB
  • After minification 252.6 kB
  • After compression 93.0 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 185.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 213.0 kB

  • Original 256.4 kB
  • After minification 225.3 kB
  • After compression 43.4 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. Dating.newscientist.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (61%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dating New Scientist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts 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 Dating.newscientist.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 Dating.newscientist.com 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dating New Scientist. 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: