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samsplayground.com

Sam's Playground — Travelling the world one place at a time.

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

305 ms

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About Website

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Travel blog with emphasis on photography and backpacking tips covering the world; recently Alaska, Canada, a US road trip, Europe and Thailand. Come explore!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Samsplayground.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

samsplayground.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

samsplayground.com

2269 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

100 ms

style.css

156 ms

styles.css

210 ms

style.css

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Samsplayground.com, 11% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Samsplayground.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 305.7 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

740.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Samsplayground.com main page is 1.0 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. Images take 622.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 61.5 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 47.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 622.6 kB
  • After minification 611.8 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. Sam S Playground images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 147.9 kB

  • Original 242.2 kB
  • After minification 225.9 kB
  • After compression 94.3 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 147.9 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 99.7 kB

  • Original 119.5 kB
  • After minification 105.3 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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. Samsplayground.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (62%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sam S Playground. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

samsplayground.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 Samsplayground.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 Samsplayground.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 data is detected on the main page of Sam S Playground. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: