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expat-blog.com

Expat.com, the expatriate community

Page Load Speed

839 ms in total

First Response

260 ms

Resources Loaded

579 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expat-blog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 260 ms and then it took 579 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

expat-blog.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

expat-blog.com

260 ms

www.expat-blog.com

168 ms

www.expat.com

44 ms

www.expat.com

43 ms

v1

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Expat-blog.com, 60% (3 requests) were made to Expat.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (260 ms) belongs to the original domain Expat-blog.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (46%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Expat-blog.com main page is 4.7 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 15.4 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 8.9 kB or 58% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 65.2 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Expat Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 560.8 kB

  • Original 827.1 kB
  • After minification 820.6 kB
  • After compression 266.3 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 560.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 243.1 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. Expat-blog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Expat Blog. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

expat-blog.com 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 Expat-blog.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 Expat-blog.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 Expat Blog. 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: