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myfederalretirement.com

My Federal Retirement - FERS / CSRS / Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) -

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

245 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Myfederalretirement.com page load time and found that the first response time was 245 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

www.myfederalretirement.com

245 ms

colorbox.css

85 ms

mgstyle.css

81 ms

style.css

85 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Myfederalretirement.com, 6% (7 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 6% (6 requests) were made to Qsearch.media.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (342 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 526.8 kB (67%)

Content Size

790.8 kB

After Optimization

263.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Myfederalretirement.com main page is 790.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 633.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 54.0 kB
  • After minification 51.5 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. 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 44.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 14.9 kB
  • After minification 9.1 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. Obviously, My Federal Retirement needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.9 kB or 39% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 399.4 kB

  • Original 633.3 kB
  • After minification 627.8 kB
  • After compression 233.9 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 399.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 77.0 kB

  • Original 88.5 kB
  • After minification 82.2 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. Myfederalretirement.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (71%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Federal Retirement. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8;

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Myfederalretirement.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 Myfederalretirement.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8;. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of My Federal Retirement. 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: