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gdc.wpi.edu

WPI Game Development Club

Page Load Speed

684 ms in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

422 ms

Page Rendered

158 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gdc.wpi.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 580 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gdc.wpi.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gdc.wpi.edu

104 ms

stylesheet.css

19 ms

embed

22 ms

jquery.min.js

62 ms

logo.png

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Gdc.wpi.edu, 18% (3 requests) were made to Calendar.google.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (185 ms) relates to the external source Calendar.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 184.4 kB (49%)

Content Size

376.3 kB

After Optimization

191.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Gdc.wpi.edu main page is 376.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 197.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.4 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 3.4 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 149.0 kB
  • After minification 98.7 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, Gdc WPI needs image optimization as it can save up to 50.2 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 112.2 kB

  • Original 197.2 kB
  • After minification 197.2 kB
  • After compression 85.0 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 112.2 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 24.4 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. Gdc.wpi.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (27%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gdc WPI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

gdc.wpi.edu SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gdc.wpi.edu 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 Gdc.wpi.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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