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blog.pulse.me

Official LinkedIn Blog

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

538 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.pulse.me page load time and found that the first response time was 538 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.pulse.me performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blog.pulse.me

538 ms

fonts.css

133 ms

style.css

199 ms

in.js

6 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

521 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.pulse.me, 77% (23 requests) were made to Blog.linkedin.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Platform.linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Blog.linkedin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 323.1 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.pulse.me main page is 1.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 31.4 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.6 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 24.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 166.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, Blog Pulse needs image optimization as it can save up to 166.1 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 101.2 kB

  • Original 165.5 kB
  • After minification 164.0 kB
  • After compression 64.4 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 101.2 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 31.5 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. Blog.pulse.me needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (32%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Pulse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blog.pulse.me SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blog.pulse.me 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 Blog.pulse.me main page’s claimed encoding is utf8. 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 data is detected on the main page of Blog Pulse. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: