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thepacker.com

The Packer - Fruit and Vegetable Industry’s Leading News Source

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

182 ms

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About Website

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The Packer covers fruit and vegetable news, produce shipping, distribution, packing, marketing and trends in fresh produce in North America.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepacker.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepacker.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.thepacker.com

33 ms

thepacker.css

60 ms

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17 ms

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20 ms

css_OXPqrHR6dijPiHBrPnArvx63qrWuvnODUY_P5ubwyU0.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Thepacker.com, 4% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to F.vimeocdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (460 ms) relates to the external source Ssl.google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (33%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Thepacker.com main page is 4.8 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. 85% 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 92.8 kB

  • Original 107.9 kB
  • After minification 91.4 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 16.5 kB, which is 15% 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 92.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 377.1 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 2.8 MB

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 Packer needs image optimization as it can save up to 377.1 kB or 12% 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 607.6 kB

  • Original 902.2 kB
  • After minification 854.7 kB
  • After compression 294.5 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 607.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 531.8 kB

  • Original 608.2 kB
  • After minification 575.7 kB
  • After compression 76.5 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. Thepacker.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 531.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (25%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Packer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thepacker.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 Thepacker.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 Thepacker.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 Packer. 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: