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providencejournalnews.com

The Providence Journal: Local News, Politics & Sports in Providence, RI

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

848 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Providencejournalnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 8.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

providencejournalnews.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

providencejournalnews.com

38 ms

www.providencejournal.com

217 ms

infinity.js.aspx

127 ms

beacon.js

36 ms

pp4.js

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 531 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Providencejournalnews.com, 15% (82 requests) were made to Providencejournal.com and 14% (75 requests) were made to S3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Platform.tout.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.8 MB (59%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Providencejournalnews.com main page is 6.4 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 237.9 kB

  • Original 298.1 kB
  • After minification 278.0 kB
  • After compression 60.3 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 237.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 232.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 921.3 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. Obviously, Providence Journal News needs image optimization as it can save up to 232.3 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 3.0 MB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.6 MB
  • After compression 1.6 MB

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 3.0 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 283.1 kB

  • Original 346.6 kB
  • After minification 327.6 kB
  • After compression 63.5 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. Providencejournalnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 283.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 261 (56%)

Requests Now

462

After Optimization

201

The browser has sent 462 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Providence Journal News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 127 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Providencejournalnews.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Providencejournalnews.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Providence Journal News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: