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stockhouse.com

Small Cap Stock Investor Community, News, & Research - Stockhouse

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

279 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stockhouse.com page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stockhouse.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

stockhouse.com

193 ms

www.stockhouse.com

489 ms

load.sumome.com

314 ms

bootstrap.min.css

22 ms

lightbox.css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Stockhouse.com, 4% (5 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (489 ms) belongs to the original domain Stockhouse.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.0 MB (62%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stockhouse.com main page is 6.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 142.4 kB

  • Original 181.8 kB
  • After minification 151.9 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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 29.9 kB, which is 16% 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 142.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 78.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Stockhouse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.0 MB
  • After compression 974.4 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 2.1 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 215.5 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. Stockhouse.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.7 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (61%)

Requests Now

129

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 129 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stockhouse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

stockhouse.com SEO score

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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 Stockhouse.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 Stockhouse.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 Stockhouse. 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: