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highsmith.com

ArusLagu

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

580 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Highsmith.com page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 4.6 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

highsmith.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

highsmith.com

154 ms

www.highsmith.com

216 ms

www.demco.com

777 ms

gtm.js

63 ms

analytics.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 163 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Highsmith.com, 52% (85 requests) were made to Demco.com and 4% (7 requests) were made to Cdn.ywxi.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Demco.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (38%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Highsmith.com main page is 3.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 125.9 kB

  • Original 154.6 kB
  • After minification 149.5 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 125.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Highsmith images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 656.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 610.8 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 656.5 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 483.2 kB

  • Original 537.4 kB
  • After minification 533.6 kB
  • After compression 54.3 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. Highsmith.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 483.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (60%)

Requests Now

150

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 150 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Highsmith. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Highsmith.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 Highsmith.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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