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Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

862 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theactuary.net page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theactuary.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

theactuary.net

2229 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

149 ms

style.min.css

203 ms

theme.min.css

200 ms

style.css

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Theactuary.net, 36% (29 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 21% (17 requests) were made to Media.theactuary.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Media.theactuary.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 345.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Theactuary.net main page is 2.2 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. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 103.2 kB

  • Original 124.0 kB
  • After minification 119.3 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 103.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 203.3 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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, The Actuary needs image optimization as it can save up to 203.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 95.0 kB
  • After minification 95.0 kB
  • After compression 74.0 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 21.0 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 89.6 kB
  • After minification 89.6 kB
  • After compression 71.4 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. Theactuary.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (67%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Actuary. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

theactuary.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 Theactuary.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 Theactuary.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 The Actuary. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: