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skillset.org

Creative Skillset - Supporting Creative Industries

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

363 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

899 ms

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About Website

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Creative Skillset empowers the Creative Industries to develop skills and talent by providing investment for individuals and businesses to grow.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skillset.org page load time and found that the first response time was 363 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skillset.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

skillset.org

363 ms

creativeskillset.org

331 ms

site-datauri.css

662 ms

modernizr.js

172 ms

site.js

811 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Skillset.org, 71% (25 requests) were made to Creativeskillset.org and 6% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Creativeskillset.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 512.4 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skillset.org main page is 1.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 859.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 31.7 kB
  • After minification 31.6 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 24.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 582 B

  • Original 859.0 kB
  • After minification 858.4 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. Skillset images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 322.8 kB

  • Original 486.4 kB
  • After minification 486.4 kB
  • After compression 163.6 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 322.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 165.1 kB

  • Original 292.6 kB
  • After minification 292.5 kB
  • After compression 127.5 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. Skillset.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 165.1 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (16%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skillset. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

skillset.org

skillset.org

363 ms

creativeskillset.org

creativeskillset.org

331 ms

site-datauri.css

site-datauri.css

662 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

172 ms

site.js

site.js

811 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

137 ms

oct.js

oct.js

166 ms

trackingCode.js

trackingCode.js

160 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

149 ms

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creative-skillset.svg

252 ms

menu.svg

menu.svg

265 ms

nav_dropdown.svg

nav_dropdown.svg

267 ms

search.svg

search.svg

265 ms

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634 ms

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arrows.svg

267 ms

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742 ms

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445 ms

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616 ms

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522 ms

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558 ms

career_advisor_blog_banner_square.jpg

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695 ms

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769 ms

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tim_square.jpg

808 ms

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861 ms

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1047 ms

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beryl1_banner_small.jpg

1020 ms

maxresdefault_square.jpg

maxresdefault_square.jpg

982 ms

social.svg

social.svg

935 ms

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30 ms

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793 ms

collect

collect

22 ms

collect

collect

147 ms

adsct

adsct

209 ms

adsct

adsct

165 ms

print-datauri.css

print-datauri.css

288 ms

SEO Factors

skillset.org SEO score

0

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 Skillset.org 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 Skillset.org 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

skillset.org

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