Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

118 ms

Resources Loaded

744 ms

Page Rendered

309 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unionstation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 118 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

unionstation.com

118 ms

www.unionstation.com

57 ms

slq3ghi.js

62 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

29 ms

www.unionstation.com

261 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Unionstation.com, 44% (8 requests) were made to Unionstation-prod-herokuapp-com.global.ssl.fastly.net and 17% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (261 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.5 kB (24%)

Content Size

386.2 kB

After Optimization

293.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Unionstation.com main page is 386.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 282.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 50.3 kB
  • After minification 45.1 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 37.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 282.9 kB
  • After minification 260.4 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. Unionstation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (23%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Unionstation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Unionstation.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Unionstation.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 description is not detected on the main page of Unionstation. 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: