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uk.wsj.com

The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and Video

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

782 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uk.wsj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uk.wsj.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

uk.wsj.com

54 ms

europe

76 ms

wsj-fonts.css

214 ms

wsjvideo.min.css

31 ms

SectionPage.css

142 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Uk.wsj.com, 30% (19 requests) were made to and 22% (14 requests) were made to Si.wsj.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (909 ms) relates to the external source Googletagservices.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.7 MB (61%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Uk.wsj.com main page is 6.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 717.5 kB

  • Original 880.8 kB
  • After minification 880.8 kB
  • After compression 163.3 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 717.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 354.8 kB
  • After minification 348.9 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. Uk Wsj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 3.0 MB
  • After compression 827.0 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 2.1 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 853.8 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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. Uk.wsj.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 853.8 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (23%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uk Wsj. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

uk.wsj.com SEO score

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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 Uk.wsj.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 Uk.wsj.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 Uk Wsj. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: