Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

7 sec

Page Rendered

278 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thestudenthub.co page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 7.2 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

thestudenthub.co performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thestudenthub.co

1439 ms

css

27 ms

css

42 ms

reset.css

280 ms

style.css

817 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Thestudenthub.co, 18% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thestudenthub.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (52%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

996.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Thestudenthub.co main page is 2.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 755.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 35.6 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 8.6 kB, which is 19% 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 37.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 755.8 kB
  • After minification 749.9 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. Thestudenthub images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 485.0 kB

  • Original 636.2 kB
  • After minification 546.4 kB
  • After compression 151.2 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 485.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 565.8 kB

  • Original 654.3 kB
  • After minification 573.5 kB
  • After compression 88.5 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. Thestudenthub.co needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 565.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (65%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thestudenthub. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thestudenthub.co SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thestudenthub.co can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Thestudenthub.co 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 Thestudenthub. 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: