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global.britannica.com

Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

477 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

747 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Global.britannica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 477 ms and then it took 2.7 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

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Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Global.britannica.com, 35% (33 requests) were made to Media-2.web.britannica.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (622 ms) relates to the external source Ox-d.merriamwebster.servedbyopenx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 826.2 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

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In fact, the total size of Global.britannica.com main page is 2.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 64.0 kB

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  • After minification 91.2 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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 64.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.0 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. Global Britannica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

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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 486.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 269.0 kB

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  • After minification 332.2 kB
  • After compression 63.8 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. Global.britannica.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 269.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (42%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

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The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Global Britannica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Language and Encoding

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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Global.britannica.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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Global.britannica.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 Global Britannica. 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: