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insidebayarea.com

East Bay Times - Contra Costa and Alameda county news, sports, entertainment, lifestyle and commentary

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

711 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

447 ms

insidebayarea.com screenshot

About Website

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East BayTimes is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Contra Costa County, Alameda County, Oakland and beyond

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Key Findings

We analyzed Insidebayarea.com page load time and found that the first response time was 711 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

insidebayarea.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.insidebayarea.com

711 ms

bartertown.css

64 ms

jquery.min.js

44 ms

bartertown-section.css

34 ms

metaRefresh.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 242 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Insidebayarea.com, 16% (39 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com and 13% (31 requests) were made to Extras.mnginteractive.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Platform.tout.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (45%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Insidebayarea.com main page is 4.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 176.7 kB

  • Original 213.8 kB
  • After minification 199.6 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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 176.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 173.5 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Inside Bay Area images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 785.8 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 1.2 MB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 530.3 kB

  • Original 615.1 kB
  • After minification 478.0 kB
  • After compression 84.8 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. Insidebayarea.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 530.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 142 (60%)

Requests Now

237

After Optimization

95

The browser has sent 237 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Inside Bay Area. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 79 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

insidebayarea.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 Insidebayarea.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 Insidebayarea.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 Inside Bay Area. 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: