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mikulski.senate.gov

Home | U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

724 ms

Page Rendered

372 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mikulski.senate.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 17 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

mikulski.senate.gov

17 ms

www.mikulski.senate.gov

64 ms

c01896be-b088-431c-b6bc-6b74b02febda.js

90 ms

bootstrap.css

16 ms

common.css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Mikulski.senate.gov, 9% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (189 ms) belongs to the original domain Mikulski.senate.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (64%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

608.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Mikulski.senate.gov main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 698.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 48.5 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 11.4 kB, which is 24% 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 38.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 121.9 kB

  • Original 427.4 kB
  • After minification 305.5 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, Mikulski Senate needs image optimization as it can save up to 121.9 kB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 480.8 kB

  • Original 698.2 kB
  • After minification 645.8 kB
  • After compression 217.4 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 480.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 443.5 kB

  • Original 518.9 kB
  • After minification 469.1 kB
  • After compression 75.4 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. Mikulski.senate.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 443.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (69%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mikulski Senate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 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 Mikulski.senate.gov 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 Mikulski.senate.gov 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 Mikulski Senate. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: