Report Summary

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    Best Practices

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water-research.net

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Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

355 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

580 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Water-research.net page load time and found that the first response time was 355 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

water-research.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

water-research.net

355 ms

template.css.php

18 ms

superfish.css

19 ms

mootools-core.js

13 ms

core.js

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Water-research.net, 16% (21 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 7% (10 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (449 ms) relates to the external source Facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 405.8 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

962.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Water-research.net main page is 1.4 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. 75% 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 918.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 116.3 kB

  • Original 147.5 kB
  • After minification 145.7 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 116.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 82.7 kB

  • Original 918.9 kB
  • After minification 836.2 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. Water Research images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 154.5 kB

  • Original 234.5 kB
  • After minification 229.9 kB
  • After compression 80.0 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 154.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 52.3 kB

  • Original 67.5 kB
  • After minification 54.8 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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. Water-research.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (63%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Water Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Water-research.net 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 Water-research.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Water Research. 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: