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orchidgeeks.com

Orchid Forum Orchid Care

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

469 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Orchidgeeks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

orchidgeeks.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

orchidgeeks.com

142 ms

www.orchidgeeks.com

727 ms

vbulletin_important.css

82 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

21 ms

connection-min.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Orchidgeeks.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (727 ms) belongs to the original domain Orchidgeeks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 153.2 kB (58%)

Content Size

262.1 kB

After Optimization

108.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Orchidgeeks.com main page is 262.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 137.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 117.7 kB

  • Original 137.8 kB
  • After minification 136.7 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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 117.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 69.4 kB
  • After minification 68.3 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. Orchid Geeks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 53.2 kB
  • After minification 52.1 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 33.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 416 B
  • After compression 232 B

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. Orchidgeeks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (64%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Orchid Geeks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

orchidgeeks.com SEO score

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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 Orchidgeeks.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 Orchidgeeks.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 Orchid Geeks. 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: