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readerschoice.riverfronttimes.com

Best of St. Louis 2015 | Riverfront Times

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

288 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Readerschoice.riverfronttimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

readerschoice.riverfronttimes.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

100 ms

Riverfront-Timess-Voters-Choice

321 ms

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128 ms

defaults.css

189 ms

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Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Readerschoice.riverfronttimes.com, 14% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (9 requests) were made to Riverfronttimes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (321 ms) belongs to the original domain Readerschoice.riverfronttimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (73%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

439.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Readerschoice.riverfronttimes.com main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 30.2 kB

  • Original 38.9 kB
  • After minification 33.6 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 5.4 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 30.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 108.5 kB
  • After minification 107.1 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. Readerschoice Riverfront Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 862.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 864.6 kB
  • After compression 269.1 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 862.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 291.7 kB

  • Original 346.0 kB
  • After minification 275.9 kB
  • After compression 54.2 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. Readerschoice.riverfronttimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 291.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (72%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Readerschoice Riverfront Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

readerschoice.riverfronttimes.com 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 Readerschoice.riverfronttimes.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 Readerschoice.riverfronttimes.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

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