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slugger.com

Louisville Slugger® | Official Website

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

554 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Slugger.com page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

slugger.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

slugger.com

164 ms

www.slugger.com

90 ms

d953f1b76725cdb31ab5b469d18b922e.css

59 ms

2847121364.js

47 ms

7c53c599cc19b4d749f24491afebe1b6.js

142 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Slugger.com, 9% (6 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to S005.osstatic.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (600 ms) belongs to the original domain Slugger.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (47%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Slugger.com main page is 3.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 83.1 kB

  • Original 97.4 kB
  • After minification 88.0 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 83.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 330.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 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. Obviously, Slugger needs image optimization as it can save up to 330.1 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 577.6 kB

  • Original 844.2 kB
  • After minification 844.1 kB
  • After compression 266.6 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 577.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 525.0 kB

  • Original 612.0 kB
  • After minification 528.4 kB
  • After compression 87.0 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. Slugger.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 525.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (21%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Slugger. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

slugger.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 Slugger.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 Slugger.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 Slugger. 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: