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followthemoney.org

Home - FollowTheMoney.org

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

387 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

194 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Followthemoney.org page load time and found that the first response time was 387 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

followthemoney.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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387 ms

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9 ms

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31 ms

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207 ms

dojo-claro.css

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Our browser made a total of 201 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Followthemoney.org, 73% (147 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 5% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Followthemoney.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 648.5 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

870.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Followthemoney.org main page is 1.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 809.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 35.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 69.4 kB

  • Original 809.0 kB
  • After minification 739.7 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. Follow The Money images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 328.1 kB

  • Original 420.7 kB
  • After minification 308.3 kB
  • After compression 92.6 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 328.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 215.3 kB

  • Original 246.6 kB
  • After minification 200.8 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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. Followthemoney.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 215.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 171 (92%)

Requests Now

186

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 186 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Follow The Money. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 153 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

followthemoney.org SEO score

0

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 Followthemoney.org 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 Followthemoney.org 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Follow The Money. 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: