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balkans.com

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

452 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

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About Website

Visit balkans.com now to see the best up-to-date Balkans content for Macedonia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about balkans.com

Online business news source in English, Serbian, and Greek, providing daily news & Week in Review Newsletter.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balkans.com page load time and found that the first response time was 452 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balkans.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

balkans.com

452 ms

style_frontpage.css

277 ms

tabs_frontpage.css

281 ms

moving_tabs_index.js

280 ms

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

375 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Balkans.com, 12% (10 requests) were made to Directory.balkans.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Balkans.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 849.9 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balkans.com main page is 2.7 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 133.8 kB

  • Original 177.0 kB
  • After minification 161.6 kB
  • After compression 43.2 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 133.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 133.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Balkans images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 556.1 kB

  • Original 903.5 kB
  • After minification 889.7 kB
  • After compression 347.4 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 556.1 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 32.4 kB
  • After minification 26.7 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. Balkans.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (41%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balkans. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

balkans.com

balkans.com

452 ms

style_frontpage.css

style_frontpage.css

277 ms

tabs_frontpage.css

tabs_frontpage.css

281 ms

moving_tabs_index.js

moving_tabs_index.js

280 ms

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

375 ms

jscollections.js

jscollections.js

284 ms

calendar-blue.css

calendar-blue.css

289 ms

calendar.js

calendar.js

368 ms

calendar-en.js

calendar-en.js

371 ms

calendar-setup.js

calendar-setup.js

370 ms

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ddaccordion_user_init_collection.js

372 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

12 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

9 ms

js

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5 ms

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background.jpg

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13 ms

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93 ms

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95 ms

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96 ms

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187 ms

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303 ms

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valo-small.jpg

190 ms

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365 ms

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188 ms

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191 ms

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301 ms

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366 ms

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ajs.php

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360 ms

gray_back.jpg

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97 ms

house_icon.jpg

house_icon.jpg

95 ms

orange_back.jpg

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96 ms

lang_en.jpg

lang_en.jpg

100 ms

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lang_sr.jpg

96 ms

lang_gr.jpg

lang_gr.jpg

137 ms

ajax_inthenews_new.php

ajax_inthenews_new.php

441 ms

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ajax_inthenews_new.php

524 ms

orange_back_big_arrow.jpg

orange_back_big_arrow.jpg

175 ms

ajs.php

ajs.php

173 ms

royal_coat_eng.jpg

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94 ms

ga.js

ga.js

5 ms

counter.js

counter.js

20 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

43 ms

t.php

t.php

61 ms

json-feed.php

json-feed.php

422 ms

ajax_news_by_industries.php

ajax_news_by_industries.php

194 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

16 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

34 ms

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23 ms

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45 ms

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63 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

110 ms

meta_web.php

meta_web.php

183 ms

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meta_web.php

172 ms

in.php

in.php

145 ms

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postmessageRelay

52 ms

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26 ms

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24 ms

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api.js

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45 ms

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43 ms

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93 ms

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178 ms

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185 ms

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188 ms

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188 ms

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189 ms

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192 ms

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269 ms

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275 ms

SEO Factors

balkans.com SEO score

0

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 Balkans.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 Balkans.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

balkans.com

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