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mdp.com

Dotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

759 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mdp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mdp.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

mdp.com

148 ms

www.mdp.com

106 ms

www.meredith.com

512 ms

fonts.min.css

88 ms

home.min.css

183 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Mdp.com, 89% (49 requests) were made to Meredith.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Meredith.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 374.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

9.4 MB

After Optimization

9.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Mdp.com main page is 9.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 31.6 kB
  • After minification 30.7 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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. 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 25.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 9.0 MB
  • After minification 9.0 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. Mdp images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 235.6 kB

  • Original 332.7 kB
  • After minification 286.5 kB
  • After compression 97.1 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 235.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 77.9 kB

  • Original 93.4 kB
  • After minification 92.5 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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. Mdp.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (17%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mdp. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

mdp.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 Mdp.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 Mdp.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 Mdp. 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: