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nextstepmag.com

NextStepU | College Search, Career Planning, and Scholarships

Page Load Speed

478 ms in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

372 ms

Page Rendered

60 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nextstepmag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 432 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nextstepmag.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

nextstepmag.com

46 ms

www.nextstepu.com

233 ms

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nextstepmag.com, 33% (1 request) were made to Nextstepu.com and 33% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (233 ms) relates to the external source Nextstepu.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 188.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nextstepmag.com main page is 1.5 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 909.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.5 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 439 B, 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 2.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 94.0 kB

  • Original 909.4 kB
  • After minification 815.4 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. Next Stepmag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 59.7 kB

  • Original 475.1 kB
  • After minification 475.1 kB
  • After compression 415.4 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 59.7 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 83.0 kB
  • After minification 75.9 kB
  • After compression 50.2 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. Nextstepmag.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.8 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Next Stepmag. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

nextstepmag.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 Nextstepmag.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 Nextstepmag.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 Next Stepmag. 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: