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syria.usembassy.gov

U.S. Embassy in Syria

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

110 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

444 ms

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About Website

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The mission of the United States Embassy is to advance the interests of the United States, and to serve and protect U.S. citizens in Syria.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Syria.usembassy.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 110 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

syria.usembassy.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

syria.usembassy.gov

110 ms

damascus.usembassy.gov

179 ms

analytics.js

13 ms

federated-analytics.js

65 ms

jquery.js

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Syria.usembassy.gov, 35% (27 requests) were made to Photos.state.gov and 31% (24 requests) were made to Damascus.usembassy.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (518 ms) relates to the external source Photos.state.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 757.6 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

706.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Syria.usembassy.gov main page is 1.5 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 564.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 57.1 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 6.6 kB, which is 11% 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 45.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 504.4 kB
  • After minification 453.9 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. Syria U S Embassy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 380.7 kB

  • Original 564.9 kB
  • After minification 536.2 kB
  • After compression 184.1 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 380.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 281.4 kB

  • Original 337.5 kB
  • After minification 320.7 kB
  • After compression 56.1 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. Syria.usembassy.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 281.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (49%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Syria U S Embassy. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

syria.usembassy.gov 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 Syria.usembassy.gov 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 Syria.usembassy.gov 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 Syria U S Embassy. 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: