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mnstate.edu

Minnesota State University Moorhead

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

218 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mnstate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

mnstate.edu

145 ms

www.mnstate.edu

127 ms

www.mnstate.edu

252 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

86 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

390 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Mnstate.edu, 5% (2 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (413 ms) relates to the external source Youvisit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 336.2 kB (35%)

Content Size

973.3 kB

After Optimization

637.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Mnstate.edu main page is 973.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 583.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

  • Original 46.9 kB
  • After minification 41.4 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 5.5 kB, which is 12% 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 37.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 55.9 kB

  • Original 583.0 kB
  • After minification 527.1 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. Mn State images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 206.5 kB

  • Original 298.9 kB
  • After minification 289.3 kB
  • After compression 92.4 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 206.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 44.3 kB
  • After minification 33.8 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Mnstate.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mn State. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Mnstate.edu 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 Mnstate.edu 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 Mn State. 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: