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big4.com

Big4.com | Big Four & Leading Accounting and Consulting Firms – news, opinion and career opportunities for aspiring & current professionals & alumni

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

365 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to Big4.com, the global social network for Big Four alumni and professionals. Look for the latest finance jobs, Big4 accounting firms, job postings available, and much more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Big4.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

www.big4.com

2357 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

71 ms

bbpress.css

116 ms

cat-posts.css

128 ms

style.css

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Big4.com, 8% (6 requests) were made to Slb.adicio.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Big4.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 561.8 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

795.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Big4.com 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 560.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 90.7 kB

  • Original 130.3 kB
  • After minification 127.0 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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 90.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 560.2 kB
  • After minification 542.9 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. Big4 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 339.3 kB

  • Original 527.3 kB
  • After minification 523.9 kB
  • After compression 188.1 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 339.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 114.6 kB

  • Original 139.5 kB
  • After minification 106.6 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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. Big4.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 114.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (75%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Big4. 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 14 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 Big4.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 Big4.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 Big4. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: