Report Summary

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    Best Practices

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blog.theitjobboard.co.uk

Tech Blog from Dice UK

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

926 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.theitjobboard.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.theitjobboard.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blog.theitjobboard.co.uk

40 ms

technews

1313 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

582 ms

srr-css.css

448 ms

style.css

739 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.theitjobboard.co.uk, 26% (27 requests) were made to Uk.dice.com and 19% (19 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Uk.dice.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (40%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.theitjobboard.co.uk main page is 3.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 569.1 kB

  • Original 725.8 kB
  • After minification 723.2 kB
  • After compression 156.6 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. 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 569.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 99.5 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Blog Theitjobboard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 543.2 kB

  • Original 813.4 kB
  • After minification 808.5 kB
  • After compression 270.2 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 543.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 91.4 kB

  • Original 106.8 kB
  • After minification 78.5 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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. Blog.theitjobboard.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 91.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (45%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Theitjobboard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blog.theitjobboard.co.uk 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 Blog.theitjobboard.co.uk 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 Blog.theitjobboard.co.uk 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 Blog Theitjobboard. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: