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jobs.about.com

About.com Careers

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

339 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jobs.about.com page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

jobs.about.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

index.html

54 ms

normalize.min.css

39 ms

css

23 ms

main.css

74 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Jobs.about.com, 17% (13 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 13% (10 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Hire.jobvite.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

765.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Jobs.about.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 70.3 kB

  • Original 79.4 kB
  • After minification 72.1 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 70.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 320.7 kB
  • After minification 311.1 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. Jobs About images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 981.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 426.2 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 981.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 125.3 kB

  • Original 144.5 kB
  • After minification 136.2 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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. Jobs.about.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (61%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Jobs About. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

jobs.about.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 Jobs.about.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 Jobs.about.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 Jobs About. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: