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public.wsj.com

The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and Video

Page Load Speed

593 ms in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

519 ms

Page Rendered

64 ms

About Website

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Breaking news and analysis from the U.S. and around the world at WSJ.com. Politics, Economics, Markets, Life & Arts, and in-depth reporting.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Public.wsj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 583 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

public.wsj.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

public.wsj.com

10 ms

public.wsj.com

77 ms

www.wsj.com

45 ms

c.js

12 ms

354 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Public.wsj.com, 44% (4 requests) were made to Static.captcha-delivery.com and 11% (1 request) were made to Wsj.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (354 ms) relates to the external source Geo.captcha-delivery.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.7 kB (41%)

Content Size

23.6 kB

After Optimization

14.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Public.wsj.com main page is 23.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 11.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 482 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 684 B

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 482 B or 41% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 640 B

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 9.0 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. Public Wsj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 7.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 682 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Public.wsj.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 682 B or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Public Wsj. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

public.wsj.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 Public.wsj.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 Public.wsj.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 Public Wsj. 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: