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Big Contrarian

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

158 ms

Resources Loaded

727 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bigcontrarian.com page load time and found that the first response time was 158 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

www.bigcontrarian.com

158 ms

jquery.js

125 ms

FancyZoom.js

104 ms

FancyZoomHTML.js

83 ms

scripts.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Bigcontrarian.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (158 ms) belongs to the original domain Bigcontrarian.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.0 kB (65%)

Content Size

178.4 kB

After Optimization

62.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bigcontrarian.com main page is 178.4 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 110.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 50.9 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 36.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 747 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 3.8 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. Obviously, Big Contrarian needs image optimization as it can save up to 747 B or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 71.2 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 95.1 kB
  • After compression 38.9 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 71.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 9.9 kB
  • After minification 8.2 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Bigcontrarian.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (53%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Big Contrarian. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bigcontrarian.com

www.bigcontrarian.com

158 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

125 ms

FancyZoom.js

FancyZoom.js

104 ms

FancyZoomHTML.js

FancyZoomHTML.js

83 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

47 ms

77 ms

style.css

style.css

62 ms

34 ms

reset.css

reset.css

24 ms

grid.css

grid.css

22 ms

bc.css

bc.css

50 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

24 ms

zoom-spin-1.png

zoom-spin-1.png

24 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

22 ms

closebox.png

closebox.png

26 ms

zoom-caption-l.png

zoom-caption-l.png

22 ms

zoom-caption-r.png

zoom-caption-r.png

23 ms

zoom-caption-fill.png

zoom-caption-fill.png

23 ms

SEO Factors

bigcontrarian.com SEO score

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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 Bigcontrarian.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 Bigcontrarian.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Big Contrarian. 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: