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playgroundboston.com

PLAYGROUND BOSTON || Boston’s #1 Music Blog

Page Load Speed

19.3 sec in total

First Response

882 ms

Resources Loaded

16.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

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Boston's #1 Music Blog for Bands, Concerts, Interviews, Reviews and Resources

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Key Findings

We analyzed Playgroundboston.com page load time and found that the first response time was 882 ms and then it took 18.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

playgroundboston.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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882 ms

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Our browser made a total of 216 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (132 requests) were addressed to the original Playgroundboston.com, 4% (8 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com and 4% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Playgroundboston.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (30%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Playgroundboston.com main page is 4.5 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. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 198.2 kB

  • Original 239.5 kB
  • After minification 228.9 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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 198.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 200.1 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. PLAYGROUND BOSTON images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 677.0 kB

  • Original 942.3 kB
  • After minification 878.7 kB
  • After compression 265.3 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 677.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 263.4 kB

  • Original 357.4 kB
  • After minification 343.0 kB
  • After compression 94.0 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. Playgroundboston.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 263.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (37%)

Requests Now

202

After Optimization

127

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 202 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PLAYGROUND BOSTON. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

playgroundboston.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 Playgroundboston.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 Playgroundboston.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

playgroundboston.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of PLAYGROUND BOSTON. 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: