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pressblog.uchicago.edu

The Chicago Blog | Smart and timely features from our books and authors

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

406 ms

Resources Loaded

793 ms

Page Rendered

395 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pressblog.uchicago.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 406 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

pressblog.uchicago.edu

406 ms

styles.css

64 ms

style.css

41 ms

jquery.js

98 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Pressblog.uchicago.edu, 28% (8 requests) were made to Press.uchicago.edu and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (406 ms) belongs to the original domain Pressblog.uchicago.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 151.9 kB (36%)

Content Size

420.2 kB

After Optimization

268.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pressblog.uchicago.edu main page is 420.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 199.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 51.4 kB
  • After minification 48.8 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 39.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 199.2 kB
  • After minification 190.5 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. Press Blog U Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 97.2 kB

  • Original 161.0 kB
  • After minification 160.8 kB
  • After compression 63.8 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 97.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Pressblog.uchicago.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (20%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Press Blog U Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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406 ms

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64 ms

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41 ms

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98 ms

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43 ms

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63 ms

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76 ms

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134 ms

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139 ms

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78 ms

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78 ms

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75 ms

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26 ms

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296 ms

SEO Factors

pressblog.uchicago.edu 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 Pressblog.uchicago.edu 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 Pressblog.uchicago.edu 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

pressblog.uchicago.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Press Blog U Chicago. 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: