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blogs.thetimes-tribune.com

Times Tribune Blogs

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

327 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

309 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.thetimes-tribune.com page load time and found that the first response time was 327 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.thetimes-tribune.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blogs

327 ms

ui_tabs.css

68 ms

nav_ui_tabs.css

69 ms

ui_tabs_v.css

63 ms

poll_new.css

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.thetimes-tribune.com, 8% (10 requests) were made to Platform.tout.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Platform.tout.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (63%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Blogs.thetimes-tribune.com main page is 3.5 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. Javascripts take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 421.5 kB

  • Original 543.9 kB
  • After minification 465.4 kB
  • After compression 122.3 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 78.5 kB, which is 14% 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 421.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 211.3 kB
  • After minification 189.0 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. Obviously, Blogs The Times Tribune needs image optimization as it can save up to 22.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB
  • After compression 994.2 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 1.7 MB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 44.8 kB

  • Original 56.8 kB
  • After minification 47.8 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. Blogs.thetimes-tribune.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 44.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (65%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs The Times Tribune. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blogs.thetimes-tribune.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 Blogs.thetimes-tribune.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 Blogs.thetimes-tribune.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 Blogs The Times Tribune. 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: