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referrals.com

Referrals.com - Find and share referrals locally.

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Referrals.com page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

referrals.com

124 ms

www.referrals.com

109 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css,jquery.alerts.css

78 ms

style_home_ver1228.css

95 ms

jquery-ui.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Referrals.com, 10% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (968 ms) relates to the external source Stats.numberchallenge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 788.3 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Referrals.com main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 895.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 68.2 kB

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 92.7 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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. 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 68.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 753.8 kB
  • After minification 727.7 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. Referrals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 581.7 kB

  • Original 895.0 kB
  • After minification 867.2 kB
  • After compression 313.3 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 581.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 112.3 kB

  • Original 136.4 kB
  • After minification 136.1 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. Referrals.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 112.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (70%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Referrals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Referrals.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 Referrals.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 data is detected on the main page of Referrals. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: