Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

519 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

514 ms

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About Website

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Sprout Connection is a social business platform that connects businesses with the goal of having them work together to reach more customers and run more efficiently.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sproutconnections.com page load time and found that the first response time was 519 ms and then it took 5.7 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

sproutconnections.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.sproutconnections.com

519 ms

bootstrap.min.css

229 ms

style.css

162 ms

homepage-style.css

161 ms

header-v2.css

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Sproutconnections.com, 23% (22 requests) were made to Adbience-production.s3.amazonaws.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Ec179c7d1efb79d11d6b-935a76bc51b567e9040a0cc13f0d3d59.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) relates to the external source Ec179c7d1efb79d11d6b-935a76bc51b567e9040a0cc13f0d3d59.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (81%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

474.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Sproutconnections.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 63.9 kB

  • Original 74.6 kB
  • After minification 61.4 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 13.3 kB, which is 18% 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 63.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 136.1 kB
  • After minification 123.5 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. Sproutconnections images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 827.8 kB
  • After compression 251.6 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 1.6 MB or 87% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 260.8 kB

  • Original 349.0 kB
  • After minification 313.7 kB
  • After compression 88.1 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. Sproutconnections.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 260.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (67%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sproutconnections. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sproutconnections.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sproutconnections.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Sproutconnections.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 Sproutconnections. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: