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expatsblog.com

Expats Blog - Expat Blogs, News, Interviews & Awards

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

282 ms

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Expats Blog unites expatriates around the globe via their blogs. Expat Blog Awards 2012, blog directory, interviews, writing contests

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expatsblog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

expatsblog.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

expatsblog.com

35 ms

expatsblog.com

470 ms

style12.css

609 ms

new_style_css.css

572 ms

jquery.qtip.min.css

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Expatsblog.com, 14% (19 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net and 13% (17 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Expatsblog.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 219.6 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Expatsblog.com main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 894.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 60.3 kB
  • After minification 58.6 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 46.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 393.3 kB
  • After minification 356.6 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. Expats Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 134.4 kB

  • Original 894.7 kB
  • After minification 894.7 kB
  • After compression 760.3 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 134.4 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 14.6 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. Expatsblog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (69%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Expats 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 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

expatsblog.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Expatsblog.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Expatsblog.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 Expats 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: