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marines.dodlive.mil

Marines.mil - The Official Website of the United States Marine Corps

Page Load Speed

10.1 sec in total

First Response

4.7 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

417 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marines.dodlive.mil page load time and found that the first response time was 4.7 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marines.dodlive.mil performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

marines.dodlive.mil

4683 ms

style.css

19 ms

superfish.css

13 ms

tipTip.css

16 ms

wpe_fe.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Marines.dodlive.mil, 3% (3 requests) were made to Marinesdodlive.disqus.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Marines.dodlive.mil.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 337.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Marines.dodlive.mil main page is 2.6 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 71.3 kB

  • Original 95.0 kB
  • After minification 89.0 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 71.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 148.8 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Marines Dodlive images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 63.6 kB

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 77.2 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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 63.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 53.9 kB

  • Original 64.4 kB
  • After minification 48.7 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. Marines.dodlive.mil needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (28%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Marines Dodlive. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

marines.dodlive.mil 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 Marines.dodlive.mil 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 Marines.dodlive.mil 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 Marines Dodlive. 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: