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ghanabase.com

Ghana Base dot Com | Ghana Music News | Music and Entertainment in Ghana | News in Ghana | Ghana Music News | Music in Ghana | Stop Payola in Ghana

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

325 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

323 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ghanabase.com page load time and found that the first response time was 325 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

ghanabase.com

325 ms

v3main.css

95 ms

v3style.css

97 ms

urchin.js

18 ms

ss.css

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Ghanabase.com, 9% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Lifestyle.ghanabase.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (408 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 188.8 kB (41%)

Content Size

464.0 kB

After Optimization

275.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ghanabase.com main page is 464.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 277.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 89.7 kB

  • Original 102.2 kB
  • After minification 92.3 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 89.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 935 B

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 69.2 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. Ghana Base images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 86.2 kB

  • Original 277.7 kB
  • After minification 270.9 kB
  • After compression 191.6 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 86.2 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 8.3 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. Ghanabase.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (51%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ghana Base. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ghanabase.com

ghanabase.com

325 ms

v3main.css

v3main.css

95 ms

v3style.css

v3style.css

97 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

18 ms

ss.css

ss.css

112 ms

ss.js

ss.js

181 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

6 ms

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get.media

9 ms

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get.media

19 ms

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__utm.gif

12 ms

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miss%20gh%202007.jpg

284 ms

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bg1.gif

47 ms

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bg4.gif

52 ms

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header-repeat.jpg

54 ms

logo3.jpg

logo3.jpg

118 ms

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topnav-repeat.gif

118 ms

topnav-sub-split.gif

topnav-sub-split.gif

119 ms

A%20Plus.jpg

A%20Plus.jpg

257 ms

ghanabase.jpg

ghanabase.jpg

258 ms

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spacer.gif

164 ms

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184 ms

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183 ms

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182 ms

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audio2.gif

257 ms

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263 ms

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261 ms

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255 ms

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263 ms

ca-pub-2623005858729319.js

ca-pub-2623005858729319.js

81 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

147 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

76 ms

dot4.gif

dot4.gif

143 ms

ads

ads

408 ms

osd.js

osd.js

17 ms

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OPS69728_300x250.js

140 ms

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51 ms

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62 ms

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66 ms

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dot2.gif

68 ms

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runtime.js

69 ms

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OPS69728_300x250_swiffy.js

6 ms

OPS69728_300x250_cta.png

OPS69728_300x250_cta.png

56 ms

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39 ms

imp

imp

19 ms

SEO Factors

ghanabase.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ghanabase.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Ghanabase.com 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

ghanabase.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ghana Base. 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: