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whir.com

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Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

803 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whir.com page load time and found that the first response time was 121 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whir.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

whir.com

121 ms

www.thewhir.com

1845 ms

css

39 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

70 ms

wp-mediaelement.css

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 158 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Whir.com, 43% (68 requests) were made to Thewhir.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to D2a3zqhezyfp59.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Thewhir.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (54%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Whir.com main page is 2.9 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 97.8 kB

  • Original 123.7 kB
  • After minification 118.6 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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 97.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 27.9 kB

  • Original 732.1 kB
  • After minification 704.2 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. Whir images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 887.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 508.3 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 887.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 521.0 kB

  • Original 611.4 kB
  • After minification 551.6 kB
  • After compression 90.4 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. Whir.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 521.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 112 (74%)

Requests Now

151

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 151 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whir. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Whir.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 Whir.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 data is detected on the main page of Whir. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: