Report Summary

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    Performance

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

171 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

522 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Events.berkshireeagle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 171 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

events.berkshireeagle.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.berkshireeagle.com

171 ms

bartertown.css

48 ms

jquery.min.js

39 ms

bartertown-section.css

34 ms

metaRefresh.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 263 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Events.berkshireeagle.com, 8% (21 requests) were made to Local.berkshireeagle.com and 6% (15 requests) were made to Thumbnails.tout.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Photos.berkshireeagle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (43%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Events.berkshireeagle.com main page is 4.9 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 185.8 kB

  • Original 237.5 kB
  • After minification 225.1 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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 185.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 147.8 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Events Berkshireeagle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 842.7 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 1.4 MB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 396.0 kB

  • Original 463.6 kB
  • After minification 367.1 kB
  • After compression 67.5 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. Events.berkshireeagle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 396.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 156 (64%)

Requests Now

245

After Optimization

89

The browser has sent 245 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Events Berkshireeagle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 91 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

events.berkshireeagle.com SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Events.berkshireeagle.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Events.berkshireeagle.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 Events Berkshireeagle. 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: