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google.maps.com

World and USA Maps for Sale - Buy Maps - Maps.com

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

605 ms

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About Website

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The largest online map store with over 10,000 products including wall maps, globes, travel maps, atlases, digital maps, online mapping tools and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Google.maps.com page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms 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

google.maps.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

google.maps.com

180 ms

www.maps.com

1345 ms

627d8650aef8420f4e5a0e1ca506d2ca.css

296 ms

128f1ee798755946f57ef5acb459a5ff.js

590 ms

css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Google.maps.com, 78% (56 requests) were made to Maps.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Maps.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (24%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Google.maps.com main page is 5.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 58.1 kB

  • Original 70.9 kB
  • After minification 64.7 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 58.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 133.5 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Google Maps images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 556.2 kB

  • Original 758.4 kB
  • After minification 624.8 kB
  • After compression 202.2 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 556.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 433.9 kB

  • Original 502.0 kB
  • After minification 431.9 kB
  • After compression 68.1 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. Google.maps.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 433.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (5%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Google Maps. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

google.maps.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 Google.maps.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 Google.maps.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 Google Maps. 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: