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wichitaeagle.com

Wichita KS Breaking News, Sports & Crime | Wichita Eagle

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

177 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

492 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wichitaeagle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 177 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wichitaeagle.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

wichitaeagle.com

177 ms

www.wichitaeagle.com

354 ms

www.kansas.com

34 ms

dtagent_A23STVhjpqrstx_7000000031020.js

64 ms

identityModulev3.min.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 181 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Wichitaeagle.com, 31% (56 requests) were made to Kansas.com and 9% (16 requests) were made to Ib.adnxs.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (519 ms) relates to the external source Api.accuweather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 861.4 kB (42%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Wichitaeagle.com main page is 2.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 156.2 kB

  • Original 191.3 kB
  • After minification 189.8 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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 156.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 690.1 kB
  • After minification 672.0 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. Wichita Eagle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 557.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 998.7 kB
  • After compression 462.8 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 557.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 130.1 kB

  • Original 169.6 kB
  • After minification 145.7 kB
  • After compression 39.5 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. Wichitaeagle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 130.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (52%)

Requests Now

160

After Optimization

77

The browser has sent 160 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wichita Eagle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts 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 Wichitaeagle.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 Wichitaeagle.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 description is not detected on the main page of Wichita Eagle. 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: