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made.org

973 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

116 ms

styles.css

147 ms

page-list.css

146 ms

wpa-style.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Eurekaballarat.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (975 ms) relates to the external source Made.org.

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Eurekaballarat.com main page is 4.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 106.0 kB

Original 131.5 kB
After minification 128.2 kB
After compression 25.5 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 106.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 154.2 kB

Original 2.7 MB
After minification 2.6 MB

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. Eureka Ballarat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 584.8 kB

Original 829.6 kB
After minification 745.0 kB
After compression 244.8 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 584.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 693.8 kB

Original 807.9 kB
After minification 768.3 kB
After compression 114.1 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. Eurekaballarat.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 693.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eureka Ballarat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.