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marketwatch.com

MarketWatch: Stock Market News - Financial News - MarketWatch

Page Load Speed

707 ms in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

587 ms

Page Rendered

78 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marketwatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 665 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Marketwatch.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

marketwatch.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.marketwatch.com

42 ms

c.js

16 ms

454 ms

index.css

19 ms

font-face.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Marketwatch.com, 63% (5 requests) were made to Static.captcha-delivery.com and 13% (1 request) were made to Ct.captcha-delivery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (454 ms) relates to the external source Geo.captcha-delivery.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.7 kB (49%)

Content Size

19.7 kB

After Optimization

10.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marketwatch.com main page is 19.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 11.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 464 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 664 B

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 464 B or 41% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 652 B

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Obviously, Market Watch needs image optimization as it can save up to 652 B or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 7.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 761 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Marketwatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 761 B or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

marketwatch.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Marketwatch.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 Marketwatch.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Market Watch. 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: