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kids.nationalgeographic.com.au

Kids' Games, Animals, Photos, Stories, and More -- National Geographic Kids

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

613 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kids.nationalgeographic.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 148 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

kids.nationalgeographic.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

kids.nationalgeographic.com.au

148 ms

kids.nationalgeographic.com

39 ms

kids.css

23 ms

ngs-global-kids.min.css

40 ms

clientlibs.min.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 188 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kids.nationalgeographic.com.au, 73% (138 requests) were made to Kids.nationalgeographic.com and 7% (13 requests) were made to S0.2mdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (666 ms) relates to the external source Members.nationalgeographic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (48%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Kids.nationalgeographic.com.au main page is 5.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 127.5 kB

  • Original 152.6 kB
  • After minification 116.0 kB
  • After compression 25.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 36.6 kB, which is 24% 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 127.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 149.3 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB

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. Kids National Geographic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 MB
  • After compression 879.0 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 2.1 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 146.8 kB

  • Original 179.8 kB
  • After minification 163.3 kB
  • After compression 33.0 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. Kids.nationalgeographic.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 146.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 112 (62%)

Requests Now

180

After Optimization

68

The browser has sent 180 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kids National Geographic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 90 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

kids.nationalgeographic.com.au 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 Kids.nationalgeographic.com.au 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 Kids.nationalgeographic.com.au 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 Kids National Geographic. 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: