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en.euractiv.eu

535 ms

euractiv.eu

657 ms

styles.css

92 ms

style.min.css

184 ms

jquery.min.js

368 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original En.euractiv.eu, 86% (6 requests) were made to Euractiv.eu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (657 ms) relates to the external source Euractiv.eu.

Content Size

66.2 kB

After Optimization

41.0 kB

In fact, the total size of En.euractiv.eu main page is 66.2 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 31.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

Original 30.9 kB
After minification 30.6 kB
After compression 5.9 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 25.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 28 B

Original 31.9 kB
After minification 31.9 kB
After compression 31.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 146 B

Original 3.4 kB
After minification 3.4 kB
After compression 3.3 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. En.euractiv.eu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of En EURACTIV. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

Language Claimed

Encoding

UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise En.euractiv.eu 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 En.euractiv.eu 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 En EURACTIV. 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: