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online.sagepub.com

SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

353 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

192 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Online.sagepub.com page load time and found that the first response time was 353 ms and then it took 5.9 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

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Network Requests Diagram

online.sagepub.com

353 ms

hw-global.css

133 ms

main.css

139 ms

hw-publisher-global.css

211 ms

hw-local-global.css

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Online.sagepub.com, 7% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Sagedigital.checkm8.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.9 sec) relates to the external source Feed.mikle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 913.1 kB (70%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

387.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Online.sagepub.com main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 823.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 35.2 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 11.6 kB, which is 33% 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 28.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 572.1 kB

  • Original 823.4 kB
  • After minification 251.2 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, Online SAGE Pub needs image optimization as it can save up to 572.1 kB or 69% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 195.1 kB

  • Original 297.7 kB
  • After minification 274.0 kB
  • After compression 102.5 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 195.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 117.2 kB

  • Original 144.7 kB
  • After minification 112.5 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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. Online.sagepub.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (45%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Online 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 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 Online.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 Online.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 Online 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: