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expatsportugallife.com

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Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

800 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

283 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expatsportugallife.com page load time and found that the first response time was 800 ms and then it took 2.9 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

expatsportugallife.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.expatsportugallife.com

800 ms

style.css

260 ms

colour.php

494 ms

add-link-to-facebook.css

176 ms

jquery.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Expatsportugallife.com, 21% (21 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 10% (10 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (949 ms) belongs to the original domain Expatsportugallife.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 851.8 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

888.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Expatsportugallife.com main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 52.5 kB

  • Original 59.8 kB
  • After minification 34.2 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 25.6 kB, which is 43% 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 52.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 529.8 kB
  • After minification 485.2 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. Expats Portugal Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 716.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 387.9 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 716.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 38.3 kB

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 36.9 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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. Expatsportugallife.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (58%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Expats Portugal 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 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

expatsportugallife.com SEO score

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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 Expatsportugallife.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 Expatsportugallife.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 Expats Portugal 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: