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californiafriends.org

Home - Cajun, Zydeco, Dancing, Bay Area, Creole, Music, Dance, Dance Lessons, Accordion, Jambalaya, San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

About Website

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California Friends is a San Francisco Bay Area group that promotes Cajun, Creole and Zydeco music and dance.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Californiafriends.org page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

californiafriends.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

californiafriends.org

199 ms

californiafriends.org

2332 ms

bootstrap.css

515 ms

formValidation.min.css

407 ms

animate.min.css

427 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Californiafriends.org, 61% (23 requests) were made to Adaptcert.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Californiafriends.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 256.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Californiafriends.org 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 45.3 kB
  • After minification 37.8 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.5 kB, which is 17% 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 34.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 115.6 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Californiafriends images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 93.6 kB

  • Original 333.4 kB
  • After minification 333.4 kB
  • After compression 239.8 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 93.6 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 48.2 kB
  • After minification 48.2 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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. Californiafriends.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.7 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (64%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Californiafriends. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Californiafriends.org 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 Californiafriends.org 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 Californiafriends. 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: