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dating.thelocal.de

Date other expats all living in Germany with meet@thelocal

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

491 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

262 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Dating Thelocal content for Germany. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about dating.thelocal.de

Meet@thelocal - Dating community for expatriates and foreign professionals living in Germany. Helps expats living abroad to chat, date, find love, find friends or find a partner

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dating.thelocal.de page load time and found that the first response time was 491 ms and then it took 1.8 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

dating.thelocal.de performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

dating.thelocal.de

491 ms

foundation.min.css

81 ms

css

24 ms

index.common.css

156 ms

index.css

176 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Dating.thelocal.de, 36% (10 requests) were made to Galcdn.datingfactory.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (491 ms) belongs to the original domain Dating.thelocal.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 245.9 kB (29%)

Content Size

852.3 kB

After Optimization

606.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Dating.thelocal.de main page is 852.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 542.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 33.0 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 24.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 542.1 kB
  • After minification 522.2 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. Dating Thelocal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 190.4 kB

  • Original 263.9 kB
  • After minification 263.9 kB
  • After compression 73.5 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 190.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 13.2 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Dating.thelocal.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (23%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dating Thelocal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

dating.thelocal.de 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 Dating.thelocal.de 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 Dating.thelocal.de 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 Dating Thelocal. 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: