Access akamai.com. Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN)

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

www.akamai.com

187 ms

gtm.js

266 ms

aksb.min.js

81 ms

akamai-bot-manager.jpg

54 ms

akamai-rsa-conference-2016-home-page.jpeg

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Akamai.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to and 8% (4 requests) were made to Cdnssl.clicktale.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (475 ms) relates to the external source D26x5ounzdjojj.cloudfront.net.

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Akamai.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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 743.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 271.8 kB

Original 420.9 kB
After minification 420.6 kB
After compression 149.1 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 271.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

Original 743.2 kB
After minification 740.6 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. Akamai images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 487.7 kB

Original 701.3 kB
After minification 701.3 kB
After compression 213.6 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 487.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 195.0 kB

Original 234.3 kB
After minification 233.9 kB
After compression 39.3 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. Akamai.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 195.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Akamai. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.