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surgeongeneral.gov

Office of the Surgeon General (OSG) | HHS.gov

Page Load Speed

887 ms in total

First Response

19 ms

Resources Loaded

562 ms

Page Rendered

306 ms

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About Website

Visit surgeongeneral.gov now to see the best up-to-date Surgeon General content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about surgeongeneral.gov

As the nation’s doctor, the U.S. Surgeon General provides the best scientific information available on how Americans can improve their health.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Surgeongeneral.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 19 ms and then it took 868 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

surgeongeneral.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

surgeongeneral.gov

19 ms

surgeongeneral.gov

21 ms

index.html

58 ms

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55 ms

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74 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Surgeongeneral.gov, 87% (34 requests) were made to Hhs.gov and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (190 ms) relates to the external source Hhs.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.3 kB (19%)

Content Size

583.3 kB

After Optimization

471.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Surgeongeneral.gov main page is 583.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 285.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 40.6 kB

  • Original 52.8 kB
  • After minification 44.0 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.8 kB, which is 17% 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 40.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 285.2 kB
  • After minification 285.2 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. Surgeon General images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 71.1 kB

  • Original 147.0 kB
  • After minification 146.9 kB
  • After compression 75.9 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 71.1 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 554 B

  • Original 98.3 kB
  • After minification 98.3 kB
  • After compression 97.7 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. Surgeongeneral.gov has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (70%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Surgeon General. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

surgeongeneral.gov 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 Surgeongeneral.gov 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 Surgeongeneral.gov 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 Surgeon General. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: