Report Summary

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live.boston.com

All Streams

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

152 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Live.boston.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

live.boston.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

live.boston.com

1746 ms

WhiteLabel.css

56 ms

AllEvents.aspx

81 ms

screen.css,bcom-forums.css,bcom-profiles.css

36 ms

shame.css

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 167 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Live.boston.com, 47% (79 requests) were made to Images.scribblelive.com and 10% (16 requests) were made to P.o0bc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Live.boston.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 906.4 kB (36%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Live.boston.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. 75% 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. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 95.0 kB

  • Original 116.2 kB
  • After minification 97.3 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.9 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 95.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 57.1 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. Live Boston images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 679.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 338.0 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 679.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 75.2 kB

  • Original 86.7 kB
  • After minification 60.4 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. Live.boston.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (37%)

Requests Now

158

After Optimization

100

The browser has sent 158 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Live Boston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

live.boston.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Live.boston.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 Live.boston.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 Live Boston. 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: