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nisource.com

Home - NiSource

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

342 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

159 ms

About Website

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Welcome to NiSource. We serve nearly four million natural gas and electric customers across seven states under our NiSource, NIPSCO and Columbia Gas brands.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nisource.com page load time and found that the first response time was 342 ms and then it took 7 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

nisource.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

nisource.com

342 ms

www.nisource.com

890 ms

www.nisource.com

1739 ms

default.css

1505 ms

nisource.css

1129 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Nisource.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Shareholder.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Nisource.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 422.1 kB (62%)

Content Size

685.0 kB

After Optimization

262.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nisource.com main page is 685.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 445.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 22.4 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 18.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 118.2 kB
  • After minification 110.1 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. Ni Source images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 312.1 kB

  • Original 445.2 kB
  • After minification 409.6 kB
  • After compression 133.1 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 312.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 83.6 kB

  • Original 97.1 kB
  • After minification 68.3 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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. Nisource.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 83.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (59%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ni Source. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

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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 Nisource.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 Nisource.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 Ni Source. 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: