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thesouthmag.com

South Magazine | Southern Dining, Shopping & Culture

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

375 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thesouthmag.com homepage info - get ready to check The South Mag best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about thesouthmag.com

South magazine is for those who call the South home. Celebrating southern lifestyle, food and culture, South magazine is published in Savannah, Georgia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesouthmag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesouthmag.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

index.php

50 ms

www.southmag.com

958 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

site-search.js

25 ms

base.js

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 130 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Thesouthmag.com, 5% (6 requests) were made to Ox-d.godengo.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Tickcounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (958 ms) relates to the external source Southmag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (35%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Thesouthmag.com main page is 2.9 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 92.4 kB

  • Original 112.1 kB
  • After minification 102.6 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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 92.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 98.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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 South Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 454.2 kB

  • Original 634.6 kB
  • After minification 509.2 kB
  • After compression 180.4 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 454.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 381.5 kB

  • Original 441.1 kB
  • After minification 418.5 kB
  • After compression 59.7 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. Thesouthmag.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 381.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (58%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The South Mag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thesouthmag.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 Thesouthmag.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 Thesouthmag.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 The South Mag. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: