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Forex Rates, Currency Exchange Rates & Forex Trading

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

157 ms

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About Website

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Forex Rates provide live exchange rates, currency trading news, forex trading info, forex exchange rates, live forex charts and historical.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forexrates.net page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 1.7 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

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Network Requests Diagram

forexrates.net

259 ms

www.forexrates.net

417 ms

style2.css

169 ms

js.js

170 ms

jquery.min.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Forexrates.net, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (496 ms) belongs to the original domain Forexrates.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.6 kB (41%)

Content Size

64.9 kB

After Optimization

38.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forexrates.net main page is 64.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 23.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 13.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 15.5 kB
  • After minification 14.0 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. Forex Rates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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 4.9 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 8.4 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Forexrates.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (18%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forex Rates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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forexrates.net

259 ms

www.forexrates.net

www.forexrates.net

417 ms

style2.css

style2.css

169 ms

js.js

js.js

170 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

6 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

186 ms

FR-FRW-css.php

FR-FRW-css.php

186 ms

logo.png

logo.png

169 ms

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europeanunion.png

168 ms

us.png

us.png

173 ms

gb.png

gb.png

174 ms

jp.png

jp.png

175 ms

au.png

au.png

175 ms

nz.png

nz.png

334 ms

ch.png

ch.png

337 ms

ca.png

ca.png

336 ms

za.png

za.png

335 ms

hk.png

hk.png

339 ms

FR-FRW-1.php

FR-FRW-1.php

336 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

496 ms

300x250_bonus_en.gif

300x250_bonus_en.gif

315 ms

FR-FRW-2.php

FR-FRW-2.php

188 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

jquery.color.js

jquery.color.js

169 ms

forex.refresh.js

forex.refresh.js

170 ms

SEO Factors

forexrates.net SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forexrates.net 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 Forexrates.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Forex Rates. 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: