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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value38.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value17,340 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.328

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value69.3 s

0/100

10%

www.baltimoresun.com

7 ms

www.baltimoresun.com

41 ms

css2

144 ms

56 ms

htlbid.css

272 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Essentials.baltimoresun.com, 30% (30 requests) were made to Baltimoresun.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to D250.baltimoresun.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Essentials.baltimoresun.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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 209.1 kB

Original 252.9 kB
After minification 240.3 kB
After compression 43.8 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 209.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 86.3 kB

Original 498.8 kB
After minification 412.5 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. Obviously, Essentials Baltimore Sun needs image optimization as it can save up to 86.3 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 424.2 kB

Original 1.2 MB
After minification 1.2 MB
After compression 746.5 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 424.2 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

Original 186.3 kB
After minification 186.3 kB
After compression 183.6 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. Essentials.baltimoresun.com has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Essentials Baltimore Sun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.