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wshingtonpost.com

The Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News and Analysis

Page Load Speed

84.6 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

70.8 sec

Page Rendered

13.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wshingtonpost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 84.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 71 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

wshingtonpost.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

wshingtonpost.com

36 ms

www.washingtonpost.com

10183 ms

tetro.min.js

20469 ms

main.js

9076 ms

main.js

8337 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wshingtonpost.com, 84% (90 requests) were made to Washingtonpost.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.5 sec) relates to the external source Washingtonpost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (80%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

362.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Wshingtonpost.com main page is 1.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 239.7 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 1.4 MB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 96.3 kB
  • After minification 96.3 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. Wshington Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 30 B

  • Original 26.2 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (62%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wshington Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

wshingtonpost.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 Wshingtonpost.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 Wshingtonpost.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 Wshington Post. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: