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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.8 s

0/100

10%

politics.georgetown.edu

1244 ms

qbp1quu.css

42 ms

style.min.css

25 ms

gu-whnu-blocks-frontend.css

43 ms

style.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Politics.georgetown.edu, 22% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Politics.georgetown.edu.

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Politics.georgetown.edu main page is 8.1 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 7.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 179.8 kB

Original 227.0 kB
After minification 194.7 kB
After compression 47.2 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 32.3 kB, which is 14% 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 179.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

Original 7.6 MB
After minification 7.6 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. Politics Georgetown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 83.5 kB

Original 245.6 kB
After minification 245.6 kB
After compression 162.0 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 83.5 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

Original 93.5 kB
After minification 93.1 kB
After compression 56.7 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. Politics.georgetown.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.7 kB or 39% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Politics Georgetown. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.