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computerworld.be

IT news, careers, business technology, reviews | Computerworld

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

310 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

924 ms

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About Website

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Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: Windows, Mobile, Apple/enterprise, Office and productivity suites, collaboration, web browsers and blockchain...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Computerworld.be page load time and found that the first response time was 310 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

computerworld.be performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

index.cfm

310 ms

384 ms

css

72 ms

iMAWebCookie.js

37 ms

widget.css

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 175 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Computerworld.be, 10% (17 requests) were made to Secure.flashtalking.com and 6% (11 requests) were made to Stepstone.be. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Smartbiz.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 914.2 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Computerworld.be main page is 2.8 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 113.3 kB
  • After minification 100.6 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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 12.7 kB, which is 11% 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 91.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 173.8 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Computerworld images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 510.2 kB

  • Original 793.0 kB
  • After minification 748.5 kB
  • After compression 282.8 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 510.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 139.3 kB

  • Original 166.8 kB
  • After minification 144.9 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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. Computerworld.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 139.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (37%)

Requests Now

164

After Optimization

103

The browser has sent 164 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Computerworld. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

computerworld.be SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Computerworld.be 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 Computerworld.be 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 Computerworld. 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: