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thiscourse.com

thisCourse | the easy, free way to build your course website

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

340 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thiscourse.com page load time and found that the first response time was 340 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

thiscourse.com

340 ms

saas-common.css

72 ms

saas-default.css

138 ms

jquery.min.js

28 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Thiscourse.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (545 ms) belongs to the original domain Thiscourse.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 137.9 kB (31%)

Content Size

444.5 kB

After Optimization

306.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thiscourse.com main page is 444.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 297.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 10.1 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 2.1 kB, which is 21% 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 7.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 42.1 kB

  • Original 297.1 kB
  • After minification 255.0 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. Obviously, ThisCourse needs image optimization as it can save up to 42.1 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 65.9 kB

  • Original 109.6 kB
  • After minification 108.5 kB
  • After compression 43.7 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 65.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Thiscourse.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (30%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ThisCourse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thiscourse.com

thiscourse.com

340 ms

saas-common.css

saas-common.css

72 ms

saas-default.css

saas-default.css

138 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

28 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

48 ms

jquery.plugins.min.js

jquery.plugins.min.js

208 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

71 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

66 ms

piwik.php

piwik.php

98 ms

bg-header.jpg

bg-header.jpg

157 ms

bg-spotlights.png

bg-spotlights.png

325 ms

sep-toplinks.png

sep-toplinks.png

143 ms

thisCourse_logo_bold_small.png

thisCourse_logo_bold_small.png

143 ms

bg-nav.png

bg-nav.png

146 ms

bg-container.gif

bg-container.gif

165 ms

bg-mask.png

bg-mask.png

207 ms

divider.png

divider.png

208 ms

i_clock30x30.png

i_clock30x30.png

209 ms

i_user_32.png

i_user_32.png

225 ms

i_pencil_32.png

i_pencil_32.png

232 ms

i_home.png

i_home.png

274 ms

bg-slider.png

bg-slider.png

277 ms

screenshot_step1.png

screenshot_step1.png

343 ms

screenshot_step2.png

screenshot_step2.png

359 ms

screenshot_step3.png

screenshot_step3.png

406 ms

btn-get_started_big.png

btn-get_started_big.png

341 ms

bg-footer-prom-lighter.png

bg-footer-prom-lighter.png

345 ms

example_modern_lit.png

example_modern_lit.png

389 ms

example_chinese_hist.png

example_chinese_hist.png

408 ms

example_calculus.png

example_calculus.png

410 ms

example_american_lit.png

example_american_lit.png

413 ms

i_socialTwitter.png

i_socialTwitter.png

426 ms

i_socialFacebook.png

i_socialFacebook.png

458 ms

i_socialRss.png

i_socialRss.png

472 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

476 ms

museo_slab_500-webfont.woff

museo_slab_500-webfont.woff

545 ms

like.php

like.php

125 ms

vpc6VNjRPXV.js

vpc6VNjRPXV.js

271 ms

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LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

307 ms

SEO Factors

thiscourse.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 Thiscourse.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 Thiscourse.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of ThisCourse. 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: