Report Summary

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search.marines.mil

Marines.mil - The Official Website of the United States Marine Corps

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

877 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Search.marines.mil page load time and found that the first response time was 877 ms and then it took 2.7 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

search.marines.mil performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

search.marines.mil

877 ms

www.marines.mil

929 ms

default.css

18 ms

module.css

24 ms

module.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Search.marines.mil, 66% (75 requests) were made to Marines.mil and 22% (25 requests) were made to Media.defense.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (929 ms) relates to the external source Marines.mil.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (50%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Search.marines.mil main page is 2.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 59.1 kB

  • Original 77.2 kB
  • After minification 72.0 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 59.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 813.0 kB
  • After minification 777.9 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. Search Marines images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 765.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 330.1 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 765.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 367.0 kB

  • Original 445.3 kB
  • After minification 416.4 kB
  • After compression 78.3 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. Search.marines.mil needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 367.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (50%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Search Marines. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

search.marines.mil 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 Search.marines.mil 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 Search.marines.mil 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 Search Marines. 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: