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horrorstudiesjournal.com

Horror Studies

Page Load Speed

554 ms in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

305 ms

Page Rendered

186 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Horrorstudiesjournal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 491 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

horrorstudiesjournal.com

63 ms

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59 ms

ruffle.js

55 ms

nav-dropdown-horror.css

24 ms

css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Horrorstudiesjournal.com, 18% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (63 ms) belongs to the original domain Horrorstudiesjournal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

980.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Horrorstudiesjournal.com main page is 1.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 5.1 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 3.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 73.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 975.3 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. Horror Studies Journal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Horrorstudiesjournal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (27%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Horror Studies Journal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Horrorstudiesjournal.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 Horrorstudiesjournal.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 Horror Studies Journal. 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: