Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

273 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

458 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Faces.ethz.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 273 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

faces.ethz.ch performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

faces.ethz.ch

273 ms

howhot.io

456 ms

bootstrap.min.css

167 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

461 ms

bootstrap.min.js

383 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Faces.ethz.ch, 70% (39 requests) were made to Howhot.io and 9% (5 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Howhot.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 320.9 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

715.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Faces.ethz.ch main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 615.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 37.9 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 7.6 kB, which is 20% 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 30.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 615.5 kB
  • After minification 598.7 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. Faces ETH Z images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 149.3 kB

  • Original 234.0 kB
  • After minification 230.1 kB
  • After compression 84.8 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 149.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 124.3 kB

  • Original 149.3 kB
  • After minification 141.2 kB
  • After compression 25.1 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. Faces.ethz.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 124.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (25%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Faces ETH Z. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

faces.ethz.ch 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 Faces.ethz.ch 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 Faces.ethz.ch 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 data is detected on the main page of Faces ETH Z. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: