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carlustblog.com

Car Lust: An Amazon.com Automotive Blog featuring passionate car stories and reviews.

Page Load Speed

22.5 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carlustblog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 22.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

carlustblog.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

carlustblog.com

72 ms

www.carlustblog.com

293 ms

styles.css

178 ms

functions.js

26 ms

q

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Carlustblog.com, 33% (18 requests) were made to Nozama.typepad.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20 sec) relates to the external source Rollyo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 610.8 kB (21%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carlustblog.com main page is 3.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 118.8 kB

  • Original 146.4 kB
  • After minification 130.6 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 15.8 kB, which is 11% 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 118.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 209.6 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Car Lust Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 241.9 kB

  • Original 346.0 kB
  • After minification 345.8 kB
  • After compression 104.2 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 241.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 48.5 kB
  • After minification 35.4 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. Carlustblog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (38%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Lust Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

carlustblog.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Carlustblog.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 Carlustblog.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 Car Lust Blog. 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: