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slugger.com

Louisville Slugger® | Official Website

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

547 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Slugger.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

slugger.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

slugger.com

9 ms

en-us

110 ms

launch-c8a28fc59dae.min.js

89 ms

21-0564_New_Product_Badges_UDP_Customizable_FNL_2_3.svg

47 ms

google.js

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Slugger.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Wilson.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Script.crazyegg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 267.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Slugger.com main page is 2.4 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. 75% 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 266.4 kB

  • Original 332.9 kB
  • After minification 329.1 kB
  • After compression 66.5 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. 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 266.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Slugger images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 110 B

  • Original 140.7 kB
  • After minification 140.7 kB
  • After compression 140.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 756 B

  • Original 120.9 kB
  • After minification 120.9 kB
  • After compression 120.1 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. Slugger.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (28%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Slugger. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

slugger.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 Slugger.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 Slugger.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 Slugger. 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: