Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

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The Westerly Sun is a local print and digital daily newspaper covering all local news, sports and community events in the Southern Rhode Island and Southeastern Connecticut area

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewesterlysun.mycapture.com page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 3 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

thewesterlysun.mycapture.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thewesterlysun.mycapture.com

205 ms

index.asp

97 ms

css

36 ms

style_12072014.css

36 ms

mobile.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 165 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Thewesterlysun.mycapture.com, 7% (11 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (606 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Thewesterlysun.mycapture.com 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 174.2 kB

  • Original 220.5 kB
  • After minification 212.1 kB
  • After compression 46.2 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 174.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 499.1 kB
  • After minification 482.5 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. The Westerly Sun Mycapture images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 517.2 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 1.2 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Thewesterlysun.mycapture.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 103 (69%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Westerly Sun Mycapture. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thewesterlysun.mycapture.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thewesterlysun.mycapture.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Thewesterlysun.mycapture.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 The Westerly Sun Mycapture. 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: