Report Summary

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theatlanticwire.com

News - The Atlantic

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

305 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

672 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theatlanticwire.com page load time and found that the first response time was 305 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theatlanticwire.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

theatlanticwire.com

305 ms

www.thewire.com

21 ms

58 ms

site.b5c325c7e1b6.css

49 ms

head.7b25b89b0b56.js

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theatlanticwire.com, 25% (23 requests) were made to Cdn.thewire.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Theatlanticwire.disqus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (553 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 974.4 kB (73%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

365.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Theatlanticwire.com main page is 1.3 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. 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 801.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 379.8 kB

  • Original 419.9 kB
  • After minification 396.4 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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 379.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 58.5 kB
  • After minification 52.3 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, The Atlantic Wire needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.2 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

-67%

Potential reduce by 538.3 kB

  • Original 801.2 kB
  • After minification 789.1 kB
  • After compression 262.9 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 538.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 60.5 kB
  • After minification 59.3 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. Theatlanticwire.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (71%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Atlantic Wire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

theatlanticwire.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 Theatlanticwire.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 Theatlanticwire.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 The Atlantic Wire. 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: