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hughhewitt.townhall.com

Conservative news, politics, opinion, breaking news analysis, political cartoons and commentary – Townhall

Page Load Speed

22.3 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

21.5 sec

Page Rendered

750 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hughhewitt.townhall.com page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 22.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

hughhewitt.townhall.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hughhewitt.townhall.com

40 ms

www.hughhewitt.com

270 ms

css

84 ms

styles.css

6 ms

style.css

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hughhewitt.townhall.com, 23% (27 requests) were made to Hughhewitt.com and 13% (16 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.5 sec) relates to the external source Demo.a2pllc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 770.5 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

969.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Hughhewitt.townhall.com 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 721.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 63.9 kB

  • Original 79.8 kB
  • After minification 69.8 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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 10.0 kB, which is 13% 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 63.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 52.0 kB

  • Original 721.0 kB
  • After minification 668.9 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. Hughhewitt Townhall images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 384.3 kB

  • Original 614.2 kB
  • After minification 607.8 kB
  • After compression 229.9 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 384.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 270.2 kB

  • Original 325.3 kB
  • After minification 317.8 kB
  • After compression 55.1 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. Hughhewitt.townhall.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 270.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (50%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hughhewitt Townhall. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hughhewitt.townhall.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 Hughhewitt.townhall.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 Hughhewitt.townhall.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 data is detected on the main page of Hughhewitt Townhall. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: