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m.columbiatribune.com

231 ms

jquery-ui-default.min.css

66 ms

styles.min.css

98 ms

_switcher.css

76 ms

simplicity.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 171 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original M.columbiatribune.com, 40% (68 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 6% (11 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (750 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of M.columbiatribune.com main page is 3.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 243.4 kB

Original 303.8 kB
After minification 241.5 kB
After compression 60.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 62.3 kB, which is 21% 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 243.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

Original 577.0 kB
After minification 539.0 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. M Columbia Tribune images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 856.9 kB

Original 1.5 MB
After minification 1.5 MB
After compression 623.5 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 856.9 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 551.8 kB

Original 649.1 kB
After minification 546.9 kB
After compression 97.2 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. M.columbiatribune.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 551.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Now

156

After Optimization

The browser has sent 156 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Columbia Tribune. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.