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thewebacademy.org

The Web Academy – Community Support for Learning Technology

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

344 ms

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About Website

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The Web Academy is a 501c3 organization based in New York providing free web design classes and creating free professional web sites for the community

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewebacademy.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 4.5 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

thewebacademy.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thewebacademy.org

1452 ms

style.css

228 ms

nggallery.css

188 ms

shutter-reloaded.css

143 ms

styles.css

135 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Thewebacademy.org, 28% (22 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 10% (8 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Thewebacademy.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 304.6 kB (40%)

Content Size

752.2 kB

After Optimization

447.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Thewebacademy.org main page is 752.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 352.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 28.4 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 3.8 kB, which is 12% 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 25.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 352.5 kB
  • After minification 328.5 kB

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. The Web Academy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 226.3 kB

  • Original 333.1 kB
  • After minification 271.0 kB
  • After compression 106.9 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 226.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 24.0 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. Thewebacademy.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (62%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Web Academy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thewebacademy.org 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 Thewebacademy.org 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 Thewebacademy.org 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 The Web Academy. 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: