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washingtonlife.com

Washington Life Magazine – The D.C. Metro area's premier guide to luxury, power, philanthropy & style.

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

405 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Washingtonlife.com page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

www.washingtonlife.com

191 ms

style.css

23 ms

sociable.css

21 ms

dashicons.min.css

55 ms

reset.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Washingtonlife.com, 9% (12 requests) were made to Adserver.washingtonlife.com and 8% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (785 ms) belongs to the original domain Washingtonlife.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 332.8 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

853.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Washingtonlife.com main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 726.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 84.2 kB

  • Original 100.3 kB
  • After minification 77.1 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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 23.2 kB, which is 23% 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 84.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 726.4 kB
  • After minification 704.5 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. Washington Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 160.4 kB

  • Original 252.5 kB
  • After minification 240.5 kB
  • After compression 92.1 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 160.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 107.4 kB
  • After minification 94.7 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Washingtonlife.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 66.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (50%)

Requests Now

127

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 127 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Washington Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Washingtonlife.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Washingtonlife.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 Washington Life. 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: