Access thefutureishere.economist.com. REDEFINING LIMITS: The Future of Sports and Technology

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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.085

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

thefutureishere.economist.com

398 ms

css

18 ms

zlq3bxh.css

262 ms

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.min.css

149 ms

style.min.css

518 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Thefutureishere.economist.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Metrics.brightcove.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Players.brightcove.net.

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Thefutureishere.economist.com main page is 3.8 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. 80% 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. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 193.5 kB

Original 239.4 kB
After minification 194.3 kB
After compression 45.9 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 45.1 kB, which is 19% 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 193.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

Original 2.7 MB
After minification 2.7 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. The Future Ishere Economist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 261.1 kB

Original 406.8 kB
After minification 369.3 kB
After compression 145.6 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 261.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 362.8 kB

Original 405.9 kB
After minification 329.9 kB
After compression 43.0 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. Thefutureishere.economist.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 362.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Future Ishere Economist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.