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secure.zdnet.com

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Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

298 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

868 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Secure.zdnet.com page load time and found that the first response time was 298 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

secure.zdnet.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

secure.zdnet.com

298 ms

www.zdnet.com

519 ms

main.css

77 ms

default.css

145 ms

boomr.js

144 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Secure.zdnet.com, 40% (21 requests) were made to Zdnet4.cbsistatic.com and 19% (10 requests) were made to Zdnet2.cbsistatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (519 ms) relates to the external source Zdnet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 754.8 kB (37%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Secure.zdnet.com main page is 2.0 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. 75% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 139.8 kB

  • Original 168.1 kB
  • After minification 143.5 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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 24.6 kB, which is 15% 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 139.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Secure ZDNet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 298.6 kB

  • Original 430.0 kB
  • After minification 428.3 kB
  • After compression 131.4 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 298.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 285.0 kB

  • Original 340.1 kB
  • After minification 338.4 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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. Secure.zdnet.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 285.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (12%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Secure ZDNet. 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.

SEO Factors

secure.zdnet.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 Secure.zdnet.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 Secure.zdnet.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 Secure ZDNet. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: