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rational.consulting

IBM Consulting, Training & Products Specialist from A Better Solution, Inc.

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

681 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

89 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rational.consulting page load time and found that the first response time was 681 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

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Network Requests Diagram

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681 ms

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68 ms

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159 ms

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91 ms

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55 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Rational.consulting and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (681 ms) belongs to the original domain Rational.consulting.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

765.3 kB

After Optimization

667.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rational.consulting main page is 765.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 674.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.3 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 3.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 86.7 kB

  • Original 674.3 kB
  • After minification 587.6 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, Rational needs image optimization as it can save up to 86.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 60.0 kB
  • After compression 60.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 25.3 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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. Rational.consulting needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (69%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rational. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

rational.consulting 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 Rational.consulting 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 Rational.consulting 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

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