Access birminghamlights.com. Birmingham Lights: Sweet Home B'ham

birminghamlights.com

237 ms

birminghamlights.com

481 ms

font-awesome.min.css

65 ms

global.js

103 ms

script.js

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Birminghamlights.com, 23% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (481 ms) belongs to the original domain Birminghamlights.com.

Content Size

862.2 kB

After Optimization

356.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Birminghamlights.com main page is 862.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 477.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

Original 22.3 kB
After minification 19.9 kB
After compression 5.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.4 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 17.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 202 B

Original 37.7 kB
After minification 37.5 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. Birmingham Lights images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 66.4 kB

Original 325.0 kB
After minification 310.5 kB
After compression 258.6 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 66.4 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 422.4 kB

Original 477.2 kB
After minification 388.3 kB
After compression 54.8 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. Birminghamlights.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 422.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birmingham Lights. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.