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local.stltoday.com

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Business Directory: Coupons, restaurants, entertainment, and hotels in St. Louis, MO

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

164 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Local.stltoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 1.7 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

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Network Requests Diagram

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222 ms

30 ms

plugins.css

20 ms

master.css

27 ms

blocks.css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 132 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Local.stltoday.com, 15% (20 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 14% (18 requests) were made to Us-u.openx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (667 ms) relates to the external source Ox-d.leessp.servedbyopenx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 735.0 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

478.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Local.stltoday.com main page is 1.2 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. Javascripts take 729.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 146.2 kB

  • Original 191.3 kB
  • After minification 183.4 kB
  • After compression 45.1 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 146.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 56.7 kB
  • After minification 55.4 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. Local St Ltoday images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 393.3 kB

  • Original 729.9 kB
  • After minification 726.7 kB
  • After compression 336.6 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 393.3 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 194.3 kB

  • Original 235.9 kB
  • After minification 205.7 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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. Local.stltoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 194.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (76%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Local St Ltoday. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 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 Local.stltoday.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 Local.stltoday.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 data is detected on the main page of Local St Ltoday. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: