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acton-research.com

Princeton Instruments | CCD, sCMOS, InGaAs, EMCCD Cameras, Spectrographs

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

273 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

245 ms

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About Website

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Princeton Instruments provides state-of-the-art CCD, ICCD, EMCCD, emICCD, X-Ray and InGaAs cameras; spectrometers; spectrographs; imaging systems; optics and coatings

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Key Findings

We analyzed Acton-research.com page load time and found that the first response time was 273 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

acton-research.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.princetoninstruments.com

273 ms

cfmessage.js

142 ms

cfajax.js

144 ms

cfform.js

115 ms

masks.js

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Acton-research.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (521 ms) relates to the external source Princetoninstruments.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (31%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Acton-research.com main page is 3.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 43.7 kB
  • After minification 28.3 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 15.4 kB, which is 35% 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 37.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 180.7 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Acton Research images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 793.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 336.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 793.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 163.8 kB

  • Original 189.1 kB
  • After minification 145.1 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. Acton-research.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 163.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (42%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Acton Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

acton-research.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Acton-research.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Acton-research.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Acton Research. 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: