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textnow.com

TextNow | Get Free Calling and Texting with TextNow

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

716 ms

Page Rendered

350 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Textnow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

textnow.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.textnow.com

58 ms

analytics.js

47 ms

css

78 ms

bootstrap.min.css

17 ms

account-management-forms.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Textnow.com, 18% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (261 ms) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 398.3 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

827.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Textnow.com main page is 1.2 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. Images take 765.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 54.8 kB

  • Original 67.4 kB
  • After minification 58.9 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 8.5 kB, which is 13% 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 54.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 55.4 kB

  • Original 765.8 kB
  • After minification 710.4 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. Text Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 76.7 kB
  • After compression 46.6 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 30.1 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 257.9 kB

  • Original 315.4 kB
  • After minification 312.7 kB
  • After compression 57.5 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. Textnow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 257.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (48%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Text Now. 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 from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

textnow.com 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 Textnow.com 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 Textnow.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 Text Now. 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: