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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

bestrates.com

71 ms

www.bestrates.com

240 ms

home.css

24 ms

style-blocks.build.css

55 ms

style.min.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Bestrates.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (240 ms) belongs to the original domain Bestrates.com.

Content Size

225.9 kB

After Optimization

183.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Bestrates.com main page is 225.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 87.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

Original 53.5 kB
After minification 53.5 kB
After compression 11.9 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 41.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6 B

Original 87.0 kB
After minification 87.0 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. Best Rates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 104 B

Original 52.5 kB
After minification 52.5 kB
After compression 52.4 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 518 B

Original 32.9 kB
After minification 32.9 kB
After compression 32.4 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. Bestrates.com has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best Rates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.