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nca.com

National Cheerleaders Association — The Work Is Worth It ®

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

938 ms

Page Rendered

337 ms

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About Website

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Since 1948 the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) was the first cheerleading organization focused on cheer competitions, cheerleading camps, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nca.com page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 1.3 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

nca.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

nca.com

78 ms

nca.varsity.com

66 ms

All-NCA.min.css

7 ms

1

32 ms

jquery.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nca.com, 55% (18 requests) were made to Nca.varsity.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (221 ms) relates to the external source P.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 881.0 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Nca.com main page is 2.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 53.4 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 11.4 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 45.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Nca images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 422.1 kB

  • Original 552.6 kB
  • After minification 393.6 kB
  • After compression 130.5 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 422.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 375.5 kB

  • Original 448.6 kB
  • After minification 448.3 kB
  • After compression 73.0 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. Nca.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 375.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (37%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nca. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

nca.com 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 Nca.com 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 Nca.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 Nca. 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: