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cities-today.com

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

682 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

285 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cities-today.com page load time and found that the first response time was 682 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

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682 ms

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19 ms

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75 ms

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75 ms

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76 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Cities-today.com, 78% (40 requests) were made to Cities-today-files.engineroom.netdna-cdn.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (682 ms) belongs to the original domain Cities-today.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 755.4 kB (54%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

655.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Cities-today.com main page is 1.4 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. Javascripts take 527.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 74.2 kB

  • Original 89.8 kB
  • After minification 84.5 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 74.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

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Potential reduce by 447 B

  • Original 317.9 kB
  • After minification 317.5 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. Cities Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 360.1 kB

  • Original 527.4 kB
  • After minification 527.3 kB
  • After compression 167.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 360.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 320.6 kB

  • Original 475.6 kB
  • After minification 473.8 kB
  • After compression 155.1 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. Cities-today.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 320.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (34%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cities Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Cities-today.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 Cities-today.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 data is detected on the main page of Cities Today. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: