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iowamathscience.org

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

346 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iowamathscience.org page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iowamathscience.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

iowamathscience.org

180 ms

iowa-stem

563 ms

iowa-stem

101 ms

gtm.js

54 ms

css_ZLU9vjcan8hMgOlZcfdSYnxaXT4xTi8rek5vUs6yraY.css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Iowamathscience.org, 30% (16 requests) were made to Educate.iowa.gov and 26% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (563 ms) relates to the external source Educate.iowa.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 462.5 kB (47%)

Content Size

982.8 kB

After Optimization

520.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Iowamathscience.org main page is 982.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 645.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 149.3 kB

  • Original 189.4 kB
  • After minification 171.5 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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 149.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Iowa Mathscience images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 287.4 kB

  • Original 645.3 kB
  • After minification 645.3 kB
  • After compression 357.8 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 287.4 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 146.6 kB
  • After minification 146.4 kB
  • After compression 120.8 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. Iowamathscience.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (53%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iowa Mathscience. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

iowamathscience.org 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 Iowamathscience.org 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 Iowamathscience.org 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 data is detected on the main page of Iowa Mathscience. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: