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shootingtimes.com

Guns, Gear, History & How-To - Shooting Times

Page Load Speed

97.1 sec in total

First Response

848 ms

Resources Loaded

63.9 sec

Page Rendered

32.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shootingtimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 848 ms and then it took 96.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

www.shootingtimes.com

848 ms

style.css

653 ms

css

585 ms

css

622 ms

css

621 ms

Our browser made a total of 234 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Shootingtimes.com, 5% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (10 requests) were made to Pentos-cdn.polarmobile.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.7 sec) relates to the external source Shootingtimesmag.disqus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (40%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Shootingtimes.com main page is 6.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 334.9 kB

  • Original 402.1 kB
  • After minification 333.7 kB
  • After compression 67.2 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 68.4 kB, which is 17% 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 334.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 135.4 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 MB

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. Shooting Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 815.3 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 1.7 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 417.8 kB

  • Original 507.2 kB
  • After minification 448.6 kB
  • After compression 89.3 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. Shootingtimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 417.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 127 (67%)

Requests Now

190

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 190 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shooting Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 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 Shootingtimes.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 Shootingtimes.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 Shooting Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: