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goarmyed.com

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Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

319 ms

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About Website

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GoArmyEd is the virtual gateway for all eligible Active Duty, National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers to request Tuition Assistance (TA) online, anytime, anywhere for classroom and distance learning.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goarmyed.com page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goarmyed.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

goarmyed.com

95 ms

www.goarmyed.com

1153 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

104 ms

global.css

139 ms

grid_layout.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Goarmyed.com, 13% (8 requests) were made to Dwh.goarmyed.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Goarmyed.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 880.2 kB (43%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Goarmyed.com main page is 2.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 44.3 kB

  • Original 64.0 kB
  • After minification 53.8 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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 10.2 kB, which is 16% 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 44.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 381.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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, Go Army Ed needs image optimization as it can save up to 381.6 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 320.1 kB

  • Original 418.7 kB
  • After minification 355.2 kB
  • After compression 98.6 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 320.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 134.2 kB

  • Original 154.3 kB
  • After minification 106.5 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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. Goarmyed.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 134.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (52%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go Army Ed. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

goarmyed.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 Goarmyed.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 Goarmyed.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 Go Army Ed. 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: