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racehorsetalk.com.au

Racehorse Talk Community Forum

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

784 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

194 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Racehorsetalk.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 784 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

racehorsetalk.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

index.php

784 ms

index.css

292 ms

script.js

355 ms

theme.js

176 ms

library.js

401 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Racehorsetalk.com.au, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Postimgs.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (784 ms) belongs to the original domain Racehorsetalk.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 239.2 kB (65%)

Content Size

366.2 kB

After Optimization

127.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Racehorsetalk.com.au main page is 366.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 136.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 52.6 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 58.9 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 52.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 63.4 kB

  • Original 107.2 kB
  • After minification 43.9 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, Racehorse Talk needs image optimization as it can save up to 63.4 kB or 59% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 74.6 kB

  • Original 136.6 kB
  • After minification 124.0 kB
  • After compression 62.0 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 74.6 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.6 kB

  • Original 59.5 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Racehorsetalk.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (62%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Racehorse Talk. 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

racehorsetalk.com.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Racehorsetalk.com.au 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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Racehorsetalk.com.au 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 Racehorse Talk. 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: