Report Summary

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

461 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southbostondirectory.wickedlocal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southbostondirectory.wickedlocal.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

southbostondirectory.wickedlocal.com

1709 ms

style-8256f8103e4b43efdd2fd974d6fc6ca3.css

137 ms

modernizr-b414da6ac720801a6b3a1277495ac9b4.js

18 ms

application-b01858c2b7951ecb85b4616a894e19db.js

19 ms

controltag

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 133 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Southbostondirectory.wickedlocal.com, 32% (42 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 25% (33 requests) were made to Maps.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Southbostondirectory.wickedlocal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (15%)

Content Size

10.1 MB

After Optimization

8.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Southbostondirectory.wickedlocal.com main page is 10.1 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. Images take 8.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 178.3 kB

  • Original 205.4 kB
  • After minification 186.8 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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 178.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 383.9 kB

  • Original 8.6 MB
  • After minification 8.2 MB

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. Southbostondirectory Wicked Local images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 819.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 393.9 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 819.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 94.5 kB

  • Original 116.8 kB
  • After minification 116.3 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. Southbostondirectory.wickedlocal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 94.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (33%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

80

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southbostondirectory Wicked Local. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

southbostondirectory.wickedlocal.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 Southbostondirectory.wickedlocal.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 Southbostondirectory.wickedlocal.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 Southbostondirectory Wicked Local. 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: