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readability.com

Readability - News on the Trend

Page Load Speed

745 ms in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

580 ms

Page Rendered

108 ms

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About Website

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Readability is a tech news website that covers the latest in gadgets, software, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Readability.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 688 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

readability.com

57 ms

modernizr.js

88 ms

fonts.css

361 ms

screen.css

93 ms

home.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Readability.com, 58% (19 requests) were made to D370mdr42phnax.cloudfront.net and 30% (10 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (361 ms) relates to the external source Cloud.typography.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 248.4 kB (46%)

Content Size

536.4 kB

After Optimization

288.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Readability.com main page is 536.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 270.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 18.8 kB
  • After minification 16.2 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.6 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 14.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 58.8 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. Readability images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 112.8 kB

  • Original 186.6 kB
  • After minification 167.0 kB
  • After compression 73.8 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 112.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 120.2 kB

  • Original 270.9 kB
  • After minification 269.4 kB
  • After compression 150.7 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. Readability.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.2 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (57%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Readability. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Readability.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 Readability.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 description is not detected on the main page of Readability. 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: