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style.css

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jquery.min.js

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Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.chemistdirect.co.uk, 40% (49 requests) were made to Blog.chemistdirect.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk and 16% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Chemistdirect.co.uk.

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

821.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Blog.chemistdirect.co.uk main page is 1.4 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 628.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 72.8 kB

Original 90.2 kB
After minification 83.0 kB
After compression 17.4 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 72.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

Original 628.6 kB
After minification 588.1 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. Blog Chemist Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 398.5 kB

Original 602.9 kB
After minification 576.9 kB
After compression 204.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 398.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 51.7 kB

Original 63.3 kB
After minification 45.8 kB
After compression 11.7 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. Blog.chemistdirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Chemist Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.