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wallstreetjournal.com

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

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

878 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wallstreetjournal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wallstreetjournal.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

wallstreetjournal.com

87 ms

online.wsj.com

38 ms

www.wsj.com

96 ms

wsj-fonts.css

102 ms

wsjvideo.min.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wallstreetjournal.com, 30% (19 requests) were made to and 21% (13 requests) were made to Si.wsj.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (923 ms) relates to the external source Si.wsj.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.7 MB (62%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Wallstreetjournal.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 754.6 kB

  • Original 928.3 kB
  • After minification 928.3 kB
  • After compression 173.7 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 754.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 314.5 kB
  • After minification 308.8 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. Wall Street Journal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 MB
  • After compression 824.4 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 865.7 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. Wallstreetjournal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 865.7 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (24%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wall Street Journal. 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

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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 Wallstreetjournal.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 Wallstreetjournal.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 Wall Street Journal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: