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wal-mart.com

Walmart | Save Money. Live better.

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

131 ms

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

551 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wal-mart.com page load time and found that the first response time was 131 ms and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wal-mart.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

wal-mart.com

131 ms

www.walmart.com

3641 ms

beacon.js

620 ms

homepage_styles.style.0638677b6af235fd33ed.css

31 ms

ft.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wal-mart.com, 43% (48 requests) were made to I5.walmartimages.com and 12% (13 requests) were made to Beacon.walmart.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) relates to the external source Walmart.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.0 MB (58%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Wal-mart.com main page is 6.8 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. 80% 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 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 411.1 kB

  • Original 500.6 kB
  • After minification 492.3 kB
  • After compression 89.5 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 411.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Walmart images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 2.5 MB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.4 MB
  • After compression 944.4 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 2.5 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 988.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 190.0 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. Wal-mart.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 988.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (48%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Walmart. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Wal-mart.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 Wal-mart.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 Walmart. 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: