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theherdnow.com

The Herd Now - Top News & Headlines Today with Colin Cowherd

Page Load Speed

648 ms in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

510 ms

Page Rendered

65 ms

About Website

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd is a thought-provoking, opinionated, and topic-driven journey through the top sports stories of the day. Colin's unique take on the sports world and unprecedented stor...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theherdnow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 575 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

theherdnow.com

73 ms

www.theherdnow.com

80 ms

bundle.cd0526b54749d3acd9a0.css

56 ms

premiere.5ab0b62afd4187ebf9b2.css

58 ms

FauxButton-component.1f25bb623660eb4f88c1.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Theherdnow.com, 77% (36 requests) were made to Static.inferno.iheart.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to I.iheart.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (235 ms) relates to the external source I.iheart.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (62%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

812.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Theherdnow.com main page is 2.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 213.4 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. 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 1.2 MB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 17.6 kB
  • After minification 17.6 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. The Herd Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 177.9 kB

  • Original 733.0 kB
  • After minification 733.0 kB
  • After compression 555.1 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 177.9 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 26.9 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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. Theherdnow.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (82%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Herd Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theherdnow.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 Theherdnow.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 The Herd Now. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: