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Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

509 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Up.thefreedictionary.com page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

up.thefreedictionary.com

80 ms

download.htm

95 ms

async.js

711 ms

all.css

646 ms

sprite.png

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Up.thefreedictionary.com, 39% (19 requests) were made to Img.tfd.com and 22% (11 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (711 ms) relates to the external source Img.tfd.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.4 kB (64%)

Content Size

201.9 kB

After Optimization

73.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Up.thefreedictionary.com main page is 201.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 90.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 37.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 38 B

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 23.1 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. Up The Free Dictionary images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 60.4 kB

  • Original 90.5 kB
  • After minification 85.8 kB
  • After compression 30.1 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 60.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. Up.thefreedictionary.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (35%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Up The Free Dictionary. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

up.thefreedictionary.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Up.thefreedictionary.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 Up.thefreedictionary.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Up The Free Dictionary. 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: