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natgeogold.com

National Geographic Channel - Videos, TV Shows & Photos - Sub-Saharan Africa Gold

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

295 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

403 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Natgeogold.com page load time and found that the first response time was 295 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Natgeogold.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

natgeogold.com

295 ms

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591 ms

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236 ms

Main.css

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 149 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Natgeogold.com, 16% (24 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 13% (19 requests) were made to Assets.natgeotv.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Natgeogold.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 389.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Natgeogold.com 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. 75% 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. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 75.9 kB

  • Original 94.9 kB
  • After minification 86.1 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 75.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Natgeo Gold images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 202.4 kB

  • Original 300.9 kB
  • After minification 292.7 kB
  • After compression 98.5 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 202.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 89.8 kB

  • Original 106.9 kB
  • After minification 89.4 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. Natgeogold.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 89.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (44%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

68

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Natgeo Gold. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

natgeogold.com SEO score

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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 Natgeogold.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 Natgeogold.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Natgeo Gold. 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: