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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,990 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.576

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

guardianunlimited.co.uk

13 ms

us

434 ms

polyfill.min.js

643 ms

graun.standalone.commercial.js

476 ms

frameworks.client.web.legacy.db602935c551e3e31ab2.js

476 ms

Our browser made a total of 231 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Guardianunlimited.co.uk, 82% (189 requests) were made to I.guim.co.uk and 11% (25 requests) were made to Assets.guim.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source I.guim.co.uk.

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Guardianunlimited.co.uk main page is 4.8 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. 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. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 1.1 MB
After compression 131.0 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 1.0 MB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 403.1 kB

Original 3.5 MB
After minification 3.1 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, Guardian Unlimited needs image optimization as it can save up to 403.1 kB or 12% 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 9.2 kB

Original 140.0 kB
After minification 140.0 kB
After compression 130.8 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

-31%

Potential reduce by 28 B

Original 90 B
After minification 62 B
After compression 62 B

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. Guardianunlimited.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28 B or 31% of the original size.

Requests Now

208

After Optimization

202

The browser has sent 208 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guardian Unlimited. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.