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video.stltoday.com

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Top Trending Video

Page Load Speed

618 ms in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

432 ms

Page Rendered

124 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Video.stltoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 556 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

video.stltoday.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

video.stltoday.com

62 ms

_stltoday.css

63 ms

beacon.js

11 ms

app.js

74 ms

respond.proxy.js

3 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Video.stltoday.com, 59% (10 requests) were made to Vault.studio.ndnmediaservices.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (162 ms) relates to the external source Launch.newsinc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 641.2 kB (72%)

Content Size

896.4 kB

After Optimization

255.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Video.stltoday.com main page is 896.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 647.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 52.5 kB

  • Original 60.8 kB
  • After minification 42.1 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 18.7 kB, which is 31% 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 52.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 16.2 kB
  • After minification 10.6 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. Obviously, Video St Ltoday needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.6 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 435.1 kB

  • Original 647.1 kB
  • After minification 645.8 kB
  • After compression 212.0 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 435.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 147.9 kB

  • Original 172.3 kB
  • After minification 172.3 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. Video.stltoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 147.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (29%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Video 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 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

video.stltoday.com SEO score

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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 Video.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 Video.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 description is not detected on the main page of Video St Ltoday. 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: