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lancastercounty.com

Discover Lancaster | Pennsylvania Dutch Country | Amish Attractions, Shopping, Dining

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

577 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lancastercounty.com page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lancastercounty.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

lancastercounty.com

80 ms

index.asp

667 ms

reset.css

33 ms

boilerplate.css

32 ms

nav.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Lancastercounty.com, 50% (63 requests) were made to Discoverlancaster.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Discoverlancaster.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (23%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Lancastercounty.com main page is 4.8 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 53.2 kB

  • Original 67.6 kB
  • After minification 55.5 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 12.1 kB, which is 18% 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 53.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 120.2 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Lancaster County images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 757.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 904.1 kB
  • After compression 406.7 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 757.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 153.8 kB

  • Original 186.9 kB
  • After minification 152.3 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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. Lancastercounty.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 153.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (54%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lancaster County. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

lancastercounty.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 Lancastercounty.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 Lancastercounty.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 data is detected on the main page of Lancaster County. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: