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Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Towcenter.gitbooks.io, 60% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 20% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (34 ms) belongs to the original domain Towcenter.gitbooks.io.

Content Size

440.7 kB

After Optimization

133.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Towcenter.gitbooks.io main page is 440.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 231.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

Original 7.8 kB
After minification 7.0 kB
After compression 2.5 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 5.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 775 B

Original 20.0 kB
After minification 19.2 kB

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. Tow Center Git Book S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 148.3 kB

Original 231.5 kB
After minification 231.5 kB
After compression 83.2 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 148.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 153.3 kB

Original 181.4 kB
After minification 180.5 kB
After compression 28.1 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. Towcenter.gitbooks.io needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 153.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tow Center Git Book S. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.