Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

557 ms

Page Rendered

718 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yourdegree.com page load time and found that the first response time was 71 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

yourdegree.com

71 ms

www.yourdegree.com

202 ms

YourDegree.Directory.css

32 ms

jquery.jgrowl.css

52 ms

jquery-1.5.2.min.js

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Yourdegree.com, 14% (6 requests) were made to Images.fii-inc.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Ajax.aspnetcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (202 ms) belongs to the original domain Yourdegree.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

336.7 kB

After Optimization

266.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Yourdegree.com main page is 336.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 188.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 27.3 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 19.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 188.0 kB
  • After minification 180.3 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. Yourdegree images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 93.8 kB
  • After minification 93.5 kB
  • After compression 72.3 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 21.4 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. Yourdegree.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (38%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Yourdegree. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

yourdegree.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Yourdegree.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Yourdegree.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 Yourdegree. 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: