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theknotinc.com

XO Group Inc.

Page Load Speed

63.4 sec in total

First Response

19.5 sec

Resources Loaded

43.7 sec

Page Rendered

168 ms

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About Website

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XO Group Inc. guides people through life’s biggest moments — from marriage, to moving in together to having a baby — with brands The Knot, The Nest and The Bump.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theknotinc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 19.5 sec and then it took 43.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theknotinc.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

theknotinc.com

19470 ms

dart.latest-min.js

113 ms

modernizr-1.5.min.js

49 ms

common.css

6728 ms

layout_modal.css

690 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Theknotinc.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Media.theknot.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Xogroupinc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Theknotinc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 412.7 kB (78%)

Content Size

529.8 kB

After Optimization

117.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Theknotinc.com main page is 529.8 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. Javascripts take 348.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 3.2 kB, which is 18% 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 13.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 472 B

  • Original 6.3 kB
  • After minification 5.8 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. Theknot Inc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 261.0 kB

  • Original 348.5 kB
  • After minification 290.6 kB
  • After compression 87.5 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 261.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 138.1 kB

  • Original 156.6 kB
  • After minification 102.2 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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. Theknotinc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 138.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (71%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theknot Inc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

theknotinc.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theknotinc.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 Theknotinc.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Theknot Inc. 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: