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thestack.com

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Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

228 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

276 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thestack.com page load time and found that the first response time was 228 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

thestack.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thestack.com

228 ms

thestack.com

602 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

23 ms

global.css

46 ms

styles.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Thestack.com, 9% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 7% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (602 ms) belongs to the original domain Thestack.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (55%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

864.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Thestack.com main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 898.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 116.3 kB

  • Original 160.2 kB
  • After minification 160.1 kB
  • After compression 43.9 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 116.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 301.0 kB
  • After minification 291.3 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. Thestack images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 608.7 kB

  • Original 898.7 kB
  • After minification 896.9 kB
  • After compression 290.0 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 608.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 303.9 kB

  • Original 543.5 kB
  • After minification 531.4 kB
  • After compression 239.6 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. Thestack.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 303.9 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (72%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thestack. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thestack.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Thestack.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 data is detected on the main page of Thestack. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: