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12 ms

answers.yahoo.com

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ask.yahoo.com, 50% (1 request) were made to Answers.yahoo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (121 ms) relates to the external source Answers.yahoo.com.

Content Size

442.2 kB

After Optimization

436.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Ask.yahoo.com main page is 442.2 kB. This result falls within a big category (top 100 000) of medium weight web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 274.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3 B

Original 53 B
After minification 53 B
After compression 50 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. This web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

Original 274.9 kB
After minification 270.4 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. Ask Yahoo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 503 B

Original 78.0 kB
After minification 77.9 kB
After compression 77.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 722 B

Original 89.2 kB
After minification 89.2 kB
After compression 88.5 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. Ask.yahoo.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

Language Claimed

N/A

Encoding

N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ask.yahoo.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 Ask.yahoo.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ask Yahoo. 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: