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sheppardsoftware.com

Sheppard Software: Fun free online learning games and activities for kids.

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

192 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

495 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sheppardsoftware.com page load time and found that the first response time was 192 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sheppardsoftware.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sheppardsoftware.com

192 ms

fonts.css

73 ms

links.css

75 ms

browser_detection.js

77 ms

openWindows.js

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 150 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (122 requests) were addressed to the original Sheppardsoftware.com, 5% (7 requests) were made to Google.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (554 ms) belongs to the original domain Sheppardsoftware.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 176.9 kB (39%)

Content Size

457.5 kB

After Optimization

280.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Sheppardsoftware.com main page is 457.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 191.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 86.3 kB

  • Original 103.2 kB
  • After minification 92.0 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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 11.2 kB, which is 11% 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 86.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 146.2 kB
  • After minification 143.9 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. Sheppard Software images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 75.0 kB

  • Original 191.5 kB
  • After minification 189.3 kB
  • After compression 116.5 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 75.0 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 13.6 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Sheppardsoftware.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (20%)

Requests Now

148

After Optimization

118

The browser has sent 148 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sheppard Software. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sheppardsoftware.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 Sheppardsoftware.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sheppard Software. 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: