Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

348 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

290 ms

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About Website

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The Rackspace Community is a place where customers, potential customers, partners and Rackers can connect with one another to ask questions, share ideas, collaborate on issues and support one another.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Community.rackspace.com page load time and found that the first response time was 348 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

community.rackspace.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

community.rackspace.com

348 ms

layout.css

105 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

220 ms

telligent.glow.min.js

239 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Community.rackspace.com, 20% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (456 ms) belongs to the original domain Community.rackspace.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (71%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

737.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Community.rackspace.com main page is 2.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 120.4 kB

  • Original 162.3 kB
  • After minification 157.6 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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 120.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 236.5 kB
  • After minification 236.5 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. Community Rackspace images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 432.1 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 1.6 MB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 169.4 kB

  • Original 196.2 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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. Community.rackspace.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 169.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (79%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Community Rackspace. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

community.rackspace.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Community.rackspace.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Community.rackspace.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 Community Rackspace. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: