Report Summary

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blog.smooch.io

Smooch Blog | The Place to Learn All About Messaging and Conversational Experiences

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

3.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.smooch.io page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.smooch.io performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blog.smooch.io

129 ms

font-awesome.min.css

49 ms

main.css

360 ms

prism.css

172 ms

act5qoi.js

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.smooch.io, 22% (12 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (650 ms) relates to the external source Load.sumome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 587.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

13.9 MB

After Optimization

13.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.smooch.io main page is 13.9 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 13.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 30.3 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 6.2 kB, which is 21% 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 23.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 206.4 kB

  • Original 13.3 MB
  • After minification 13.1 MB

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. Blog Smooch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 336.4 kB

  • Original 566.4 kB
  • After minification 556.1 kB
  • After compression 230.0 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 336.4 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 28.6 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. Blog.smooch.io needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (45%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Smooch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blog.smooch.io 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 Blog.smooch.io 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 Blog.smooch.io 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 Blog Smooch. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: