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thepasadenacitizen.com

Pasadena | Houston Community Newspapers | HoustonChronicle.com - Houston Chronicle

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

999 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepasadenacitizen.com page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 999 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

thepasadenacitizen.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thepasadenacitizen.com

92 ms

107 ms

captcha.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thepasadenacitizen.com, 33% (1 request) were made to Houstonchronicle.com and 33% (1 request) were made to Captcha.perimeterx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (107 ms) relates to the external source Houstonchronicle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

665.5 kB

After Optimization

647.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Thepasadenacitizen.com main page is 665.5 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 371.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 2.5 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 371.1 kB
  • After minification 371.1 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. The Pasadena Citizen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 262.7 kB
  • After minification 262.7 kB
  • After compression 247.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 233 B

  • Original 27.5 kB
  • After minification 27.5 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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. Thepasadenacitizen.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Pasadena Citizen. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

thepasadenacitizen.com 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 Thepasadenacitizen.com 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 Thepasadenacitizen.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 The Pasadena Citizen. 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: