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aolnews.com

News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

407 ms

Resources Loaded

499 ms

Page Rendered

519 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aolnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 407 ms and then it took 1 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. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Aolnews.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

aolnews.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

aolnews.com

407 ms

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67 ms

csp

101 ms

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47 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Aolnews.com, 50% (2 requests) were made to S.yimg.com and 25% (1 request) were made to Csp.yahoo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (407 ms) belongs to the original domain Aolnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.5 kB (34%)

Content Size

66.5 kB

After Optimization

44.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Aolnews.com main page is 66.5 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 61.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 5.5 kB
  • After minification 5.1 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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 3.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 61.0 kB
  • After minification 42.2 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. Obviously, AOL News needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.8 kB or 31% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AOL News. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

aolnews.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 Aolnews.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 Aolnews.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 description is not detected on the main page of AOL News. 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: