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startle.com

Forbes Travel Guide Star Rated Hotels, Restaurants & Spas

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

648 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Startle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 3 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

startle.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

startle.com

62 ms

www.forbestravelguide.com

970 ms

css

66 ms

style.css

278 ms

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Startle.com, 39% (21 requests) were made to S.forbestravelguide.com and 17% (9 requests) were made to Blog.forbestravelguide.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (970 ms) relates to the external source Forbestravelguide.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 761.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Startle.com main page is 6.6 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 5.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 42.6 kB

  • Original 55.2 kB
  • After minification 45.8 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 9.4 kB, which is 17% 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 42.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 188.7 kB

  • Original 5.9 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Star Tle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 268.2 kB

  • Original 408.2 kB
  • After minification 403.9 kB
  • After compression 140.0 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 268.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 261.8 kB

  • Original 310.4 kB
  • After minification 308.1 kB
  • After compression 48.6 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. Startle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (17%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Star Tle. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

startle.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 Startle.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 Startle.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 data is detected on the main page of Star Tle. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: