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local.thebostonchannel.com

Business listings by category in Boston, MA - Boston, MA Local Businesses

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

415 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Local.thebostonchannel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 415 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

local.thebostonchannel.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

415 ms

layout.css

21 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.5.custom.css

50 ms

layout.css

100 ms

category.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 144 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Local.thebostonchannel.com, 16% (23 requests) were made to Wcvb.com and 10% (15 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (742 ms) relates to the external source Wcvb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (68%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

580.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Local.thebostonchannel.com main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 45.1 kB

  • Original 52.6 kB
  • After minification 31.3 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 21.3 kB, which is 41% 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 45.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 121.3 kB
  • After minification 107.2 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. Obviously, Local The Boston Channel needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.0 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 460.7 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 1.2 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 26.6 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Local.thebostonchannel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 112 (82%)

Requests Now

137

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 137 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Local The Boston Channel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

local.thebostonchannel.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 Local.thebostonchannel.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 Local.thebostonchannel.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 Local The Boston Channel. 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: