Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

245 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstenergy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 165 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

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Network Requests Diagram

firstenergy.com

165 ms

www.firstenergy.com

553 ms

caption.js

118 ms

styles.css

293 ms

template.css

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Firstenergy.com, 14% (10 requests) were made to Legacy.firstenergy.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (773 ms) belongs to the original domain Firstenergy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 408.4 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

599.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Firstenergy.com main page is 1.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 457.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

  • Original 55.3 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 6.9 kB, which is 12% 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 47.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 457.7 kB
  • After minification 446.1 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. Firstenergy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 223.5 kB

  • Original 350.8 kB
  • After minification 340.5 kB
  • After compression 127.3 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 223.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 126.2 kB

  • Original 144.3 kB
  • After minification 96.7 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. Firstenergy.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 126.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (44%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firstenergy. 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 from 8 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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Firstenergy.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Firstenergy.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 Firstenergy. 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: