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footballgeography.com

FootballGeography.com » Where Football History Has a Place

Page Load Speed

12.8 sec in total

First Response

4.3 sec

Resources Loaded

8.1 sec

Page Rendered

384 ms

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About Website

Visit footballgeography.com now to see the best up-to-date Football Geography content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about footballgeography.com

Football geography is a website dedicated to the link between the game of football and where it has been played. This blog examines a wide variety of topics on football, geography, and history.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Footballgeography.com page load time and found that the first response time was 4.3 sec and then it took 8.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

footballgeography.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.footballgeography.com

4283 ms

widget.css

130 ms

css

25 ms

style.css

198 ms

skin.css

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Footballgeography.com, 13% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Footballgeography.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 316.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

849.5 kB

After Optimization

532.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Footballgeography.com main page is 849.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 444.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 99.4 kB

  • Original 115.2 kB
  • After minification 113.3 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 99.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 444.9 kB
  • After minification 438.1 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. Football Geography images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 144.8 kB

  • Original 208.3 kB
  • After minification 202.2 kB
  • After compression 63.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 144.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 65.9 kB

  • Original 81.1 kB
  • After minification 69.9 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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. Footballgeography.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (56%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Football Geography. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

footballgeography.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 Footballgeography.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 Footballgeography.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 Football Geography. 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: