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arl.army.mil

DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory – The Army's foundational research laboratory

Page Load Speed

12.3 sec in total

First Response

594 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

6.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arl.army.mil page load time and found that the first response time was 594 ms and then it took 11.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

arl.army.mil

594 ms

arl.army.mil

474 ms

www.arl.army.mil

695 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

121 ms

style.min.css

282 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Arl.army.mil, 22% (13 requests) were made to Pbcdn1.podbean.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Arl.army.mil.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 778.3 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Arl.army.mil main page is 3.1 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 30.2 kB
  • After minification 28.4 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 23.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Arl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 218.5 kB

  • Original 340.3 kB
  • After minification 340.0 kB
  • After compression 121.8 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 218.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 536.6 kB

  • Original 687.4 kB
  • After minification 676.2 kB
  • After compression 150.8 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. Arl.army.mil needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 536.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (44%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Arl.army.mil 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 Arl.army.mil 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 Arl. 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: