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newscenter.verizon.com

Verizon News Center | About Verizon

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

514 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newscenter.verizon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 17 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newscenter.verizon.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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17 ms

33 ms

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97 ms

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54 ms

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14 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Newscenter.verizon.com, 66% (41 requests) were made to Verizon.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) relates to the external source Verizon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (72%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

954.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Newscenter.verizon.com main page is 3.4 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. CSS take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 212.9 kB

  • Original 254.2 kB
  • After minification 240.4 kB
  • After compression 41.4 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 212.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 67.9 kB

  • Original 342.5 kB
  • After minification 274.5 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. Obviously, News Center Verizon needs image optimization as it can save up to 67.9 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 942.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 375.4 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 942.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 263.4 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. Newscenter.verizon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (40%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Center Verizon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

newscenter.verizon.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 Newscenter.verizon.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 Newscenter.verizon.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 News Center Verizon. 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: