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forum.skype.com

Skype | Free calls to friends and family

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

201 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

632 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forum.skype.com page load time and found that the first response time was 201 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

forum.skype.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.skype.com

201 ms

17 ms

core.css

25 ms

components.css

31 ms

scom.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Forum.skype.com, 8% (3 requests) were made to Secure.skypeassets.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to C.microsoft.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (313 ms) relates to the external source Skypeassets.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 512.1 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

963.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Forum.skype.com main page is 1.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 845.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 38.4 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 38.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 845.6 kB
  • After minification 829.4 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. Forum Skype images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 158.2 kB

  • Original 248.8 kB
  • After minification 248.0 kB
  • After compression 90.6 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 158.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 299.3 kB

  • Original 332.3 kB
  • After minification 329.8 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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. Forum.skype.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 299.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (32%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forum Skype. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

forum.skype.com SEO score

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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 Forum.skype.com 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 Forum.skype.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 Forum Skype. 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: