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megaswim.com

MS Mega Challenge - Raise funds to support people living with MS

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

653 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

331 ms

About Website

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The MS Mega Challenge is one of Australia's most popular fundraising events. Raising funds to support people living with MS through team relay sports.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Megaswim.com page load time and found that the first response time was 653 ms and then it took 6.6 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

megaswim.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

megaswim.com

653 ms

www.msmegaswim.org.au

298 ms

dd-public.min.css

1571 ms

master.min.css

1558 ms

master.min.css

1586 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Megaswim.com, 20% (16 requests) were made to Assets.donordrive.com and 19% (15 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Assets.donordrive.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 420.3 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Megaswim.com main page is 1.7 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 49.4 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 39.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Mega Swim images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 165.0 kB

  • Original 300.4 kB
  • After minification 299.3 kB
  • After compression 135.4 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 165.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 192.5 kB

  • Original 232.3 kB
  • After minification 215.8 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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. Megaswim.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 192.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (46%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mega Swim. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

megaswim.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Megaswim.com 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 Megaswim.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 Mega Swim. 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: