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answers.usmint.gov

US Mint Catalog - Silver and Gold Coins, Numismatic Supplies and Gifts

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

507 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Answers.usmint.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

answers.usmint.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

Default-Start

218 ms

jquery.ui.all.css

33 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

39 ms

fonts.css

31 ms

jquery.cookie.js

57 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 Answers.usmint.gov, 7% (9 requests) were made to Catalog.usmint.gov and 3% (4 requests) were made to Libs.coremetrics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (287 ms) relates to the external source Tr-1.agilone.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (52%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Answers.usmint.gov main page is 3.5 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 130.3 kB

  • Original 168.3 kB
  • After minification 150.5 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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 17.8 kB, which is 11% 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 130.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 217.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, Answers US Mint needs image optimization as it can save up to 217.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 983.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 432.6 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 983.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 503.0 kB

  • Original 586.0 kB
  • After minification 537.5 kB
  • After compression 83.0 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. Answers.usmint.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 503.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (57%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Answers US Mint. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

answers.usmint.gov 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 Answers.usmint.gov 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 Answers.usmint.gov 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 Answers US Mint. 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: