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thewallstreetjournal.com

The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and Video

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

588 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewallstreetjournal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thewallstreetjournal.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thewallstreetjournal.com

34 ms

thewallstreetjournal.com

20 ms

www.wsj.com

803 ms

video.min.js

982 ms

audioplayer.min.js

992 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Thewallstreetjournal.com, 22% (7 requests) were made to Images.wsj.net and 19% (6 requests) were made to Na.rdcpix.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Images.wsj.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.6 MB (74%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Thewallstreetjournal.com main page is 4.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 3.6 MB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 MB
  • After compression 356.2 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 3.6 MB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 197.9 kB
  • After minification 191.8 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 Wall Street Journal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 738.4 kB
  • After minification 738.4 kB
  • After compression 738.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 83 B

  • Original 16.5 kB
  • After minification 16.5 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. Thewallstreetjournal.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (29%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Wall Street Journal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts 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 Thewallstreetjournal.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 Thewallstreetjournal.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 Wall Street Journal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: