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slicehost.net

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Page Load Speed

12.6 sec in total

First Response

4.7 sec

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

488 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Slicehost.net page load time and found that the first response time was 4.7 sec and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

slicehost.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cloud

4667 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

81 ms

css_kczUQ8q80BQuZoIJv7lpxG7wh2ytnmwZRE-sSqEco9E.css

93 ms

css

82 ms

font-awesome.min.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Slicehost.net, 11% (14 requests) were made to Rackspace.com and 9% (11 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) relates to the external source Rackspace.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (66%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

633.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Slicehost.net main page is 1.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 977.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 114.6 kB
  • After minification 111.9 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 91.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 182.3 kB
  • After minification 178.4 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. Slicehost images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 652.2 kB

  • Original 977.0 kB
  • After minification 923.2 kB
  • After compression 324.8 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 652.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 502.0 kB

  • Original 608.3 kB
  • After minification 605.7 kB
  • After compression 106.3 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. Slicehost.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 502.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (65%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Slicehost. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

slicehost.net 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 Slicehost.net 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 Slicehost.net 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 Slicehost. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: