Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

14.9 sec in total

First Response

3.8 sec

Resources Loaded

9.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theexpressnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.8 sec and then it took 11.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theexpressnews.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

theexpressnews.com

3756 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

157 ms

validationEngine.jquery.css

145 ms

styles.css

142 ms

styles.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 275 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (185 requests) were addressed to the original Theexpressnews.com, 7% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (17 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Theexpressnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (33%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Theexpressnews.com main page is 4.6 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. 85% 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 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 156.4 kB

  • Original 182.3 kB
  • After minification 139.0 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 43.3 kB, which is 24% 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 156.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 727.9 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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, Theexpressnews needs image optimization as it can save up to 727.9 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 430.8 kB

  • Original 621.5 kB
  • After minification 565.7 kB
  • After compression 190.7 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 430.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 206.2 kB

  • Original 262.3 kB
  • After minification 225.9 kB
  • After compression 56.1 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. Theexpressnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 206.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 97 (37%)

Requests Now

265

After Optimization

168

The browser has sent 265 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theexpressnews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

theexpressnews.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theexpressnews.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Theexpressnews.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 Theexpressnews. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: