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blogs.wlu.edu

Blogs for Washington and Lee University

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

710 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.wlu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 710 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.wlu.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blogs.wlu.edu

710 ms

style.css

81 ms

plugins.css

56 ms

formidablepro.css

121 ms

textFill.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Blogs.wlu.edu, 3% (1 request) were made to Www2.wlu.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (710 ms) belongs to the original domain Blogs.wlu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.8 kB (63%)

Content Size

196.8 kB

After Optimization

73.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.wlu.edu main page is 196.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 96.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 13.1 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 9.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 50.6 kB
  • After minification 46.0 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. Blogs Wlu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 35.6 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 27.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 81.8 kB

  • Original 96.2 kB
  • After minification 87.8 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Blogs.wlu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 81.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (15%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Wlu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.wlu.edu

blogs.wlu.edu

710 ms

style.css

style.css

81 ms

plugins.css

plugins.css

56 ms

formidablepro.css

formidablepro.css

121 ms

textFill.js

textFill.js

42 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

35 ms

screen.css

screen.css

82 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

61 ms

search.png

search.png

161 ms

body-bg.gif

body-bg.gif

31 ms

wordmark.png

wordmark.png

97 ms

bg-menu-blue.gif

bg-menu-blue.gif

95 ms

bg-menu-brown.gif

bg-menu-brown.gif

24 ms

page-bg-left.gif

page-bg-left.gif

94 ms

page-bg-right.gif

page-bg-right.gif

95 ms

sidebar-bg.gif

sidebar-bg.gif

95 ms

backpage-heading-bg.gif

backpage-heading-bg.gif

94 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

620 ms

two-tone-teeth.png

two-tone-teeth.png

112 ms

nav-header.png

nav-header.png

95 ms

footer-bg-teeth.png

footer-bg-teeth.png

94 ms

seal.gif

seal.gif

174 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

95 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

101 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

103 ms

wordpress.png

wordpress.png

118 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

116 ms

rss.png

rss.png

118 ms

print.css

print.css

23 ms

SEO Factors

blogs.wlu.edu 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 Blogs.wlu.edu 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 Blogs.wlu.edu 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

blogs.wlu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blogs Wlu. 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: