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events.gazette.com

Events | coloradosprings.com

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

309 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

578 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Events.gazette.com page load time and found that the first response time was 309 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

events.gazette.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

events.gazette.com

309 ms

events

124 ms

events

540 ms

gazette-legacy.css

318 ms

styles.php

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 190 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Events.gazette.com, 12% (23 requests) were made to Citysparkstorage.blob.core.windows.net and 6% (12 requests) were made to Ums.adtechus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Citysparkstorage.blob.core.windows.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (54%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Events.gazette.com main page is 2.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 420.4 kB

  • Original 486.7 kB
  • After minification 411.8 kB
  • After compression 66.2 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 74.9 kB, which is 15% 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 420.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 245.7 kB

  • Original 981.4 kB
  • After minification 735.7 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. Obviously, Events Gazette needs image optimization as it can save up to 245.7 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 622.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 417.0 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 622.6 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 163.6 kB

  • Original 195.0 kB
  • After minification 177.7 kB
  • After compression 31.4 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. Events.gazette.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 163.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 103 (67%)

Requests Now

154

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 154 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Events Gazette. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

events.gazette.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Events.gazette.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Events.gazette.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 Events Gazette. 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: