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nextgeneration.city

Next Generation City - Knowledge Platform on Smart Cities

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

379 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

79 ms

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About Website

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Knowledge Platform and Community on Smart City strategy and Smart Cities. Connecting theory and practice, recent research and projects from all over the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nextgeneration.city page load time and found that the first response time was 379 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nextgeneration.city performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

nextgeneration.city

379 ms

sitedown.php

171 ms

bootstrap.min.css

17 ms

e107.css

272 ms

style.css

367 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Nextgeneration.city, 33% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 17% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (388 ms) belongs to the original domain Nextgeneration.city.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

57.7 kB

After Optimization

48.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Nextgeneration.city main page is 57.7 kB. 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 37.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 741 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 574 B

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 741 B or 56% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 12.6 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. Obviously, Next Generation needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.7 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 37.0 kB
  • After minification 37.0 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. Nextgeneration.city has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (67%)

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Next Generation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Nextgeneration.city 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 Nextgeneration.city 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 Next Generation. 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: