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hardtimes.com

Hard Times Cafe | American Restaurant with 5 Locations in The US

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

332 ms

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About Website

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

Chili. Wings. Burgers. Sports. How does a little hole-in-the-wall chili parlor in Old Town Alexandria grow into a popular regional chain? One reason: Our food.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hardtimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 160 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 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

hardtimes.com

160 ms

www.hardtimes.com

350 ms

ga.js

5 ms

FileMerge.axd

103 ms

FileMerge.axd

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Hardtimes.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (546 ms) belongs to the original domain Hardtimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 819.3 kB (24%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hardtimes.com main page is 3.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 20.9 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. 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 16.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 429.7 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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, Hard Times needs image optimization as it can save up to 429.7 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 284.4 kB

  • Original 418.9 kB
  • After minification 418.6 kB
  • After compression 134.5 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 284.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 88.3 kB

  • Original 104.3 kB
  • After minification 94.1 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. Hardtimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 88.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (17%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hard Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hardtimes.com

hardtimes.com

160 ms

www.hardtimes.com

www.hardtimes.com

350 ms

ga.js

ga.js

5 ms

FileMerge.axd

FileMerge.axd

103 ms

FileMerge.axd

FileMerge.axd

171 ms

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__utm.gif

11 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

110 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

119 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

79 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

78 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

91 ms

css

css

27 ms

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bgrepeat.jpg

166 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

171 ms

logo.png

logo.png

76 ms

srch.gif

srch.gif

62 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

41 ms

navBg.png

navBg.png

120 ms

navdd.png

navdd.png

193 ms

bg_sub_marker.gif

bg_sub_marker.gif

81 ms

arrowBig.png

arrowBig.png

106 ms

homeSlideshow.png

homeSlideshow.png

351 ms

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slide1.gif

251 ms

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288 ms

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546 ms

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293 ms

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363 ms

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hmlocBg.png

275 ms

map1.png

map1.png

373 ms

divider.png

divider.png

338 ms

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HT_ChiliSpice_300X175.jpg

371 ms

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486 ms

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399 ms

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ftr.png

471 ms

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lnav.gif

432 ms

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twitter.png

411 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

435 ms

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ssOn.png

462 ms

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ssLine.png

478 ms

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13 ms

SEO Factors

hardtimes.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 Hardtimes.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 Hardtimes.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hard Times. 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: