Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

263 ms

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Consolidated Communications, Inc. (CCI) is a business and broadband communications provider serving customers across its 11-state service area. The Company provides advanced communication solutions to...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hickorytech.com page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hickorytech.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hickorytech.com

117 ms

www.hickorytech.com

200 ms

www.consolidated.com

206 ms

www.consolidated.com

418 ms

bootstrap.min.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Hickorytech.com, 68% (54 requests) were made to Consolidated.com and 13% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (418 ms) relates to the external source Consolidated.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (52%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Hickorytech.com main page is 3.3 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. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 122.2 kB

  • Original 159.4 kB
  • After minification 123.3 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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 36.1 kB, which is 23% 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 122.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 241.1 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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, Hickorytech needs image optimization as it can save up to 241.1 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 310.1 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 1.1 MB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 218.9 kB

  • Original 257.0 kB
  • After minification 224.3 kB
  • After compression 38.2 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. Hickorytech.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 218.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (56%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hickorytech. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hickorytech.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hickorytech.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 Hickorytech.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 Hickorytech. 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: