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hcs.sagepub.com

SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

679 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

157 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hcs.sagepub.com page load time and found that the first response time was 679 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hcs.sagepub.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hcs.sagepub.com

679 ms

hw-global.css

70 ms

main.css

141 ms

hw-publisher-global.css

142 ms

hw-local-global.css

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Hcs.sagepub.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Sage.checkm8.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (679 ms) belongs to the original domain Hcs.sagepub.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 309.4 kB (75%)

Content Size

415.1 kB

After Optimization

105.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Hcs.sagepub.com main page is 415.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 217.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 13.8 kB, which is 34% 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 33.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-97%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 48.7 kB
  • After minification 1.4 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, Hcs SAGE Pub needs image optimization as it can save up to 47.3 kB or 97% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 140.0 kB

  • Original 217.1 kB
  • After minification 199.1 kB
  • After compression 77.0 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 140.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 88.6 kB

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 82.9 kB
  • After compression 20.7 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. Hcs.sagepub.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 88.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (69%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hcs SAGE Pub. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hcs.sagepub.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 Hcs.sagepub.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 Hcs.sagepub.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 Hcs SAGE Pub. 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: