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blog.emaildirect.com

EmailDirect Admin Blog

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

605 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.emaildirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 605 ms and then it took 5.1 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

blog.emaildirect.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blog.emaildirect.com

605 ms

toolbar-sprite.css

1889 ms

ed.css

2076 ms

styles.css

192 ms

tableStyle.jpg

771 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.emaildirect.com, 19% (7 requests) were made to Images.emaildirect.com and 17% (6 requests) were made to Emaildirect.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Emaildirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

746.2 kB

After Optimization

637.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Blog.emaildirect.com main page is 746.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 620.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 50.7 kB
  • After minification 42.4 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.3 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 40.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 620.0 kB
  • After minification 604.2 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 Email Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 111 B

  • Original 11.6 kB
  • After minification 11.6 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 52.6 kB

  • Original 63.9 kB
  • After minification 48.2 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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. Blog.emaildirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (29%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Email Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blog.emaildirect.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 Blog.emaildirect.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 Blog.emaildirect.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 Email Direct. 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: