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erskine.edu

Erskine College - Due West, South Carolina

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

301 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Erskine.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 2.2 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

erskine.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

erskine.edu

68 ms

www.erskine.edu

793 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

26 ms

css.php

204 ms

style.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Erskine.edu, 22% (15 requests) were made to Cdn.datatables.net and 7% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (793 ms) belongs to the original domain Erskine.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Erskine.edu main page is 3.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 34.6 kB
  • After minification 33.2 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 26.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 712.5 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, Erskine needs image optimization as it can save up to 712.5 kB or 31% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 430.5 kB

  • Original 654.9 kB
  • After minification 646.0 kB
  • After compression 224.4 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 430.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 114.7 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 130.3 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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. Erskine.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 114.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (73%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Erskine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

erskine.edu 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 Erskine.edu 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 Erskine.edu 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 Erskine. 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: