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smartgrowthamerica.us: Smart Growth America

Page load speed analysis

  • 61/100

    Normal result
  • 5

    Successful tests
  • 3

    Failed tests
  • First response

    211 ms

  • Resources loaded

    3.7 sec

  • Page rendered

    531 ms

  • Total page load time

    4.4 sec

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We analyzed Smartgrowthamerica.us page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Page optimization

  • HTML 33.3 kB
    Images 39.4 kB
    Javascripts 59.6 kB
    CSS 77.8 kB

    In fact, the total size of Smartgrowthamerica.us main page is 210.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 77.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

    • Original 33.3 kB
    • After minification 31.1 kB
    • After compression 6.9 kB

    HTML optimization

    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 26.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

    • Original 39.4 kB
    • After optimization 39.4 kB

    Image optimization

    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. Smart Growth America images are well optimized though.

    • Original 59.6 kB
    • After minification 56.6 kB
    • After compression 34.2 kB

    JavaScript optimization

    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 25.4 kB or 43% of the original size.

    • Original 77.8 kB
    • After minification 56.6 kB
    • After compression 14.4 kB

    CSS optimization

    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. Smartgrowthamerica.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Network requests diagram

  • smartgrowthamerica.us
  • style.css
  • sociable.css
  • tubepress.css
  • tablepress-combined.min.css
  • slider.css
  • jquery.js
  • jquery-migrate.min.js
  • sociable.js
  • vuible.js
  • addtofavorites.js
  • tubepress.js
  • plusone.js
  • tw-sack.min.js
  • promoslider.js
  • wp-embed.min.js
  • wp-emoji-release.min.js
  • plusone.js
  • cb=gapi.loaded_0
  • sga-logo.png
  • side1.png
  • bg-tile.gif
  • amazing-place-slider.png
  • street-lights-home-banner_5-2016-1.png
  • policy-forum-2016-slider.jpg
  • apply-today-thumb.png
  • cripple-co-featured.png
  • t4-sidewalk-230.png
  • foot-traffic-ahead-featured.png
  • 10x10-spacer.gif
  • read-more.png
  • latest-posts.png
  • go-to-blog.png
  • fbk-top.png
  • twtr-top.png
  • join-with-us.png
  • analytics.js
  • donate-2013.png
  • wrapper_bg.png
  • footer-bg.png
  • go.png
  • collect
  • 10x10-spacer.gif
  • donate-2013.png
  • go.png
  • latest-posts.png
  • read-more.png
  • side1.png
  • go-to-blog.png
  • go.png
  • 10x10-spacer.gif
  • donate-2013.png
  • latest-posts.png
  • read-more.png

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Smartgrowthamerica.us, 46% (25 requests) were made to Old.smartgrowthamerica.org and 35% (19 requests) were made to Smartgrowthamerica.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Smartgrowthamerica.org.

Additional info on smartgrowthamerica.us

Requests

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smart Growth America. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

14

Javascripts

21

Images

5

CSS

1

AJAX

41

All

Possible request optimization

1

Javascripts

21

Images

1

CSS

1

AJAX

17

Optimized

24

All

Normal result

IP address

Smartgrowthamerica.us uses IP address which is currently shared with 4 other domains. The more sites share the same IP address, the higher the host server’s workload is. It is strongly recommended that the host server should be changed or the hosting provider should be requested to give a different (separate) IP address for this domain.

Poor result

IP Trace

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173.254.17.127

DNS records

Type Host Target/ip TTL Other
A

smartgrowthamerica.us

173.254.17.127 300
NS

smartgrowthamerica.us

ns1.bluehost.com 300
NS

smartgrowthamerica.us

ns2.bluehost.com 300
SOA

smartgrowthamerica.us

300 Mname: ns1.bluehost.com
Rname: root.box2423.bluehost.com
Serial: 2020101011
Refresh: 86400
Retry: 7200
Expire: 3600000
Minimum-ttl: 300
MX

smartgrowthamerica.us

smartgrowthamerica.us 300 Pri: 0

Language and encoding

Good result

Language

EN en language flag

Detected

EN en language flag

Claimed

Encoding

UTF-8

Claimed

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Smartgrowthamerica.us 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 Smartgrowthamerica.us 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.

HTTPS certificate

SSL Certificate

Smartgrowthamerica.us has no SSL certificate. Web browsing can be safer with HTTPS connection, so we suggest that it should be obtained for this site.

Poor result

Visitor World Map

The server of Smartgrowthamerica.us is located in United States, but, unfortunately, we cannot identify the countries where the visitors come from and thus it’s impossible to define if the distance can potentially affect the page load time.

Good result

Poor result

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Smart Growth America. 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:

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