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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,250 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.5 s

1/100

10%

greaterbostonstage.org

11 ms

www.greaterbostonstage.org

49 ms

js

137 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

18 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Greaterbostonstage.org, 19% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (985 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.rlets.com.

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Greaterbostonstage.org 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. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 168.7 kB

Original 196.3 kB
After minification 189.4 kB
After compression 27.6 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 168.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 246.9 kB

Original 1.5 MB
After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, Greater Boston Stage needs image optimization as it can save up to 246.9 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

Original 203.7 kB
After minification 203.7 kB
After compression 189.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

Original 201.0 kB
After minification 201.0 kB
After compression 175.3 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. Greaterbostonstage.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.7 kB or 13% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Greater Boston Stage. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.