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media.npr.org

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Page Load Speed

586 ms in total

First Response

144 ms

Resources Loaded

233 ms

Page Rendered

209 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Media.npr.org page load time and found that the first response time was 144 ms and then it took 442 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

media.npr.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

media.npr.org

144 ms

persistent-64c09e7331dc55d4fb04599013cc324038c34e86.css

19 ms

newsHp2-b8ae68aafd0258dfc65fbf3d743060ebdb6c4847.css

35 ms

head-8068cdd1194ec200b4d18e31dc9036fe908edc06.js

41 ms

npr-home.png

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Media.npr.org, 13% (4 requests) were made to S.npr.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (144 ms) belongs to the original domain Media.npr.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 695.2 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

372.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Media.npr.org main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 552.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 117.9 kB

  • Original 141.0 kB
  • After minification 111.1 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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 29.9 kB, which is 21% 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 117.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 585 B

  • Original 70.3 kB
  • After minification 69.7 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. Media NPR images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 203.0 kB

  • Original 303.2 kB
  • After minification 303.2 kB
  • After compression 100.2 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 203.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 373.7 kB

  • Original 552.9 kB
  • After minification 550.9 kB
  • After compression 179.2 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. Media.npr.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 373.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Media NPR. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

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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 Media.npr.org 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 Media.npr.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 Media NPR. 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: