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41 ms

59 ms

style.css

3 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

36 ms

load.js

213 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Huskiewire.com, 45% (32 requests) were made to Daily-chronicle.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (702 ms) relates to the external source Portal.cityspark.com.

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Huskiewire.com main page is 2.2 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 973.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 123.4 kB

Original 213.1 kB
After minification 213.0 kB
After compression 89.7 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 123.4 kB or 58% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

Original 973.2 kB
After minification 912.7 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. Huskiewire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 419.4 kB

Original 964.2 kB
After minification 962.8 kB
After compression 544.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 419.4 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Huskiewire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.