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theskewer.com.au

The Skewer - News Too Good To Be True

Page Load Speed

8.2 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

638 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theskewer.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 6.7 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

theskewer.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.theskewer.com.au

1478 ms

cloudflare.min.js

16 ms

html5.js

44 ms

kia3qdb.js

164 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 162 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (92 requests) were addressed to the original Theskewer.com.au, 7% (12 requests) were made to and 6% (10 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Theskewer.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 796.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Theskewer.com.au main page is 4.6 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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 65.9 kB

  • Original 84.6 kB
  • After minification 84.5 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 65.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 229.1 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. The Skewer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 204.4 kB

  • Original 298.1 kB
  • After minification 268.5 kB
  • After compression 93.6 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 204.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 296.8 kB

  • Original 342.2 kB
  • After minification 271.0 kB
  • After compression 45.5 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. Theskewer.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 296.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (44%)

Requests Now

146

After Optimization

82

The browser has sent 146 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Skewer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Theskewer.com.au 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 Theskewer.com.au 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 Skewer. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: