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smarterbucks.com

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Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

295 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

211 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smarterbucks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 295 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smarterbucks.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

smarterbucks.com

295 ms

sbucks.js

496 ms

qop4fci.js

134 ms

styles.css

640 ms

conversion.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Smarterbucks.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (640 ms) belongs to the original domain Smarterbucks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 399.4 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

731.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Smarterbucks.com main page is 1.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 587.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 21.6 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 8.3 kB, which is 28% 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 24.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 30.2 kB

  • Original 587.8 kB
  • After minification 557.6 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. Smarterbucks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 127.1 kB

  • Original 260.7 kB
  • After minification 260.6 kB
  • After compression 133.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 127.1 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 217.8 kB

  • Original 252.1 kB
  • After minification 250.7 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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. Smarterbucks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 217.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (18%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smarterbucks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

smarterbucks.com

smarterbucks.com

295 ms

sbucks.js

sbucks.js

496 ms

qop4fci.js

qop4fci.js

134 ms

styles.css

styles.css

640 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

19 ms

ga.js

ga.js

79 ms

smarterbucks_logo.png

smarterbucks_logo.png

156 ms

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new_tree_slide_homepg_v3.png

306 ms

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gifters_slide_homepg.png

154 ms

brandlogos_slide_homepg.png

brandlogos_slide_homepg.png

236 ms

cardBanner.png

cardBanner.png

290 ms

members_slide_homepg.png

members_slide_homepg.png

360 ms

newyork_times_logo.png

newyork_times_logo.png

227 ms

wallstreet_journal_logo.png

wallstreet_journal_logo.png

236 ms

us_news_logo.png

us_news_logo.png

239 ms

katie_couric_logo.png

katie_couric_logo.png

255 ms

american_banker_logo.png

american_banker_logo.png

287 ms

bucks_formula_plus.png

bucks_formula_plus.png

291 ms

bucks_formula_equals.png

bucks_formula_equals.png

339 ms

memberFDIC.jpg

memberFDIC.jpg

379 ms

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358 ms

quant.js

quant.js

12 ms

bucks_formula_sprite.png

bucks_formula_sprite.png

318 ms

footer_img.png

footer_img.png

344 ms

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373 ms

155 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

33 ms

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80 ms

roundtrip.js

roundtrip.js

8 ms

SEO Factors

smarterbucks.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Smarterbucks.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Smarterbucks.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Smarterbucks. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: