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lifeinkorea.com

Life in Korea: Korea hotels, travel, tours | culture, language, information, shopping, and communities in South Korea

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

286 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

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About Website

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Life in Korea has everything you need for YOUR life in Korea! Make Seoul hotel reservations, join a Panmunjeom tour, travel to historic Gyeongju, learn the Korean language, view thousands of pictures ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lifeinkorea.com page load time and found that the first response time was 286 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lifeinkorea.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

lifeinkorea.com

286 ms

www.lifeinkorea.com

699 ms

index.css

245 ms

jquery.min.js

5 ms

jQuery.slide.js

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Lifeinkorea.com, 9% (13 requests) were made to Cdn.flashtalking.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (699 ms) belongs to the original domain Lifeinkorea.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 720.9 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

740.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Lifeinkorea.com main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 51.5 kB

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 61.4 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 51.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 334.4 kB
  • After minification 330.7 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. Life In Korea images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 655.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 982.0 kB
  • After compression 394.6 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 655.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 13.7 kB
  • After minification 11.5 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Lifeinkorea.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (37%)

Requests Now

134

After Optimization

85

The browser has sent 134 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Life In Korea. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

lifeinkorea.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 Lifeinkorea.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 Lifeinkorea.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 Life In Korea. 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: