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blog.ncsasports.org

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

671 ms

Page Rendered

578 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.ncsasports.org page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 1.2 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

blog.ncsasports.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.ncsasports.org

81 ms

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8 ms

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20 ms

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8 ms

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8 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blog.ncsasports.org, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (232 ms) relates to the external source Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 670.2 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

876.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Blog.ncsasports.org 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 715.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 53.0 kB

  • Original 66.6 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 53.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 715.5 kB
  • After minification 675.4 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. Blog NCSASports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 390.6 kB

  • Original 541.7 kB
  • After minification 480.6 kB
  • After compression 151.1 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 390.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 186.5 kB

  • Original 222.6 kB
  • After minification 218.8 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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. Blog.ncsasports.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 186.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (49%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog NCSASports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blog.ncsasports.org 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 Blog.ncsasports.org 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 Blog.ncsasports.org 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 Blog NCSASports. 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: