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news.providencejournal.com

News in Providence, RI | The Providence Journal

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

738 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.providencejournal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.providencejournal.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

news.providencejournal.com

12 ms

news

356 ms

infinity.js.aspx

267 ms

beacon.js

36 ms

pp4.js

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 359 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original News.providencejournal.com, 18% (65 requests) were made to S3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com and 15% (54 requests) were made to Providencejournal.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (973 ms) relates to the external source S3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (61%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of News.providencejournal.com main page is 4.4 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 199.2 kB

  • Original 247.4 kB
  • After minification 229.4 kB
  • After compression 48.1 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. 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 199.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 221.7 kB

  • Original 817.8 kB
  • After minification 596.1 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, News Providence Journal needs image optimization as it can save up to 221.7 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 3.0 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 2.0 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 267.3 kB

  • Original 327.4 kB
  • After minification 308.2 kB
  • After compression 60.1 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. News.providencejournal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 267.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 162 (48%)

Requests Now

335

After Optimization

173

The browser has sent 335 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Providence Journal. 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 8 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 News.providencejournal.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 News.providencejournal.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 News Providence Journal. 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: