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va529.com

Virginia529 | 529 College Savings Plans | Tax-Advantaged | Low Fees | Virginia529

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

462 ms

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About Website

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Tax-advantaged college savings accounts from the nation's largest 529 plan. Low fees, flexible & easy account management. Independently rated among the best 529 plans, helping families save for o...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Va529.com page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 2.1 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

va529.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

va529.com

61 ms

www.virginia529.com

803 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICANVfqru_10295240705110949.js

33 ms

addsearch-search-ui.min.js

104 ms

addsearch-search-ui.min.css

126 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Va529.com, 60% (32 requests) were made to Virginia529.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Go.va529.info. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (803 ms) relates to the external source Virginia529.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

997.7 kB

After Optimization

885.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Va529.com main page is 997.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 519.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 38.3 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 40.3 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 9.6 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 38.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 339.2 kB
  • After minification 333.6 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. Va 529 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 519.9 kB
  • After minification 519.9 kB
  • After compression 471.1 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 88.7 kB
  • After minification 88.7 kB
  • After compression 68.7 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. Va529.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (74%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Va 529. 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 10 to 1 for CSS 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 Va529.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 Va529.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 Va 529. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: