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hotchalk.com

HotChalk Education | Every Mind Matters

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

766 ms

Page Rendered

401 ms

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About Website

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

We believe everyone should have access to education. HotChalk partners with established, non-profit universities to bring degree programs online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hotchalk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hotchalk.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hotchalk.com

31 ms

www.hotchalk.com

117 ms

normalize.css

17 ms

foundation.css

20 ms

style.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Hotchalk.com, 11% (5 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 7% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (269 ms) relates to the external source Webtools.hotchalk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (69%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

494.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hotchalk.com main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 848.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 203.1 kB

  • Original 224.0 kB
  • After minification 220.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 203.1 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 244.3 kB
  • After minification 237.0 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. Hot Chalk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 644.0 kB

  • Original 848.6 kB
  • After minification 824.3 kB
  • After compression 204.6 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 644.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 260.5 kB

  • Original 292.1 kB
  • After minification 231.3 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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. Hotchalk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 260.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (61%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hot Chalk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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hotchalk.com

31 ms

www.hotchalk.com

www.hotchalk.com

117 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

17 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

20 ms

style.css

style.css

18 ms

style.css

style.css

31 ms

shareaholic.js

shareaholic.js

47 ms

hc_sources.css

hc_sources.css

47 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

28 ms

hc_base_functions_front.css

hc_base_functions_front.css

27 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

93 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

111 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

47 ms

userDetailsJS.php

userDetailsJS.php

269 ms

custom.modernizr.js

custom.modernizr.js

45 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

46 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

45 ms

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105 ms

hotchalk-corporate.js

hotchalk-corporate.js

43 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

42 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

43 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

41 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

42 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

10 ms

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1e5975aafe2028d73dbc8da3fc75e3a8.json

39 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

36 ms

logo-hotchalk.png

logo-hotchalk.png

19 ms

icon-contactus.png

icon-contactus.png

19 ms

shrMain.min.js

shrMain.min.js

14 ms

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2f5a6074-badc-4e08-83f1-ed67fe5c3d7c.eot

115 ms

collect

collect

37 ms

bg-main-hero-1.jpg

bg-main-hero-1.jpg

73 ms

arrow-morelink-orange.png

arrow-morelink-orange.png

69 ms

btn-big-down-arrow.png

btn-big-down-arrow.png

69 ms

bg-stripe-orange.png

bg-stripe-orange.png

69 ms

arrow-morelink-white.png

arrow-morelink-white.png

69 ms

bg-experience.jpg

bg-experience.jpg

70 ms

icon-linkedin.png

icon-linkedin.png

70 ms

collect

collect

130 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

104 ms

highlight-beam.png

highlight-beam.png

29 ms

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92 ms

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93 ms

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92 ms

pageview.gif

pageview.gif

27 ms

SEO Factors

hotchalk.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 Hotchalk.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 Hotchalk.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 Hot Chalk. 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: