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blog.squareup.com

The Bottom Line | A Publication By Square

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

473 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.squareup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 473 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.squareup.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blog.squareup.com

473 ms

583 ms

modernizr.js

94 ms

application.css

275 ms

jquery.min.js

567 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.squareup.com, 23% (22 requests) were made to Squareup.com and 17% (16 requests) were made to Diyfqze5s92fh.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Diyfqze5s92fh.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.8 kB (64%)

Content Size

105.3 kB

After Optimization

37.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Blog.squareup.com main page is 105.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 63.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 32.8 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 8.9 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 33.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 63.5 kB
  • After minification 63.5 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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 34.2 kB or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (54%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Square Up. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blog.squareup.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blog.squareup.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blog.squareup.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 Blog Square Up. 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: