Report Summary

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blog.ctpost.com

CTPost: Southwest Connecticut Area News, Fairfield County News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds - Connecticut Post

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.ctpost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.ctpost.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blog.ctpost.com

109 ms

blog.ctpost.com

152 ms

www.ctpost.com

94 ms

captcha.js

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.ctpost.com, 25% (1 request) were made to Ctpost.com and 25% (1 request) were made to Captcha.perimeterx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (152 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.ctpost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.1 kB (2%)

Content Size

521.9 kB

After Optimization

509.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Blog.ctpost.com main page is 521.9 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 287.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 2.5 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 230.5 kB
  • After minification 221.9 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. Blog CTPost images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 287.3 kB
  • After minification 287.2 kB
  • After compression 286.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog CTPost. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

blog.ctpost.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 Blog.ctpost.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 Blog.ctpost.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 Blog CTPost. 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: