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getcertified.com

Information Technology (IT) Certifications & Training | CompTIA

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

112 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Getcertified.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

getcertified.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

why-get-certified

93 ms

why-get-certified

150 ms

why-get-certified

47 ms

why-get-certified

75 ms

404

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Getcertified.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Munchkin.marketo.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (401 ms) relates to the external source Certification.comptia.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 428.0 kB (78%)

Content Size

549.5 kB

After Optimization

121.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Getcertified.com main page is 549.5 kB. 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. CSS take 258.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 46.8 kB
  • After minification 40.7 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 6.1 kB, which is 13% 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 37.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 19.7 kB
  • After minification 16.2 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. Obviously, Getcertified needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 157.4 kB

  • Original 224.2 kB
  • After minification 206.1 kB
  • After compression 66.8 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 157.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 229.3 kB

  • Original 258.8 kB
  • After minification 177.8 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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. Getcertified.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 229.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (24%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Getcertified. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

getcertified.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Getcertified.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Getcertified.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 Getcertified. 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: