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users2.wsj.com

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

Page Load Speed

588 ms in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

475 ms

Page Rendered

50 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Users2.wsj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 525 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

users2.wsj.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

users2.wsj.com

63 ms

www.wsj.com

44 ms

i.js

14 ms

22 ms

font-face.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Users2.wsj.com, 43% (3 requests) were made to Static.captcha-delivery.com and 14% (1 request) were made to Wsj.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (318 ms) relates to the external source Static.captcha-delivery.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.0 kB (42%)

Content Size

23.9 kB

After Optimization

13.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Users2.wsj.com main page is 23.9 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 11.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 404 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 655 B

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 404 B or 38% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 640 B

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 9.0 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. Users 2 Wsj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 11.8 kB
  • After minification 11.8 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 8.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 435 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 965 B

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. Users2.wsj.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 435 B or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Users 2 Wsj. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

users2.wsj.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Users2.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 Users2.wsj.com 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 Users 2 Wsj. 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: