Access projects.houstonchronicle.com. Investigations from the Houston Chronicle

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Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Projects.houstonchronicle.com, 33% (1 request) were made to Houstonchronicle.com and 33% (1 request) were made to Captcha.perimeterx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (100 ms) belongs to the original domain Projects.houstonchronicle.com.

Content Size

14.8 MB

After Optimization

14.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Projects.houstonchronicle.com main page is 14.8 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 14.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

Original 4.2 kB
After minification 4.1 kB
After compression 1.7 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 2.5 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 489.3 kB

Original 14.5 MB
After minification 14.0 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. Projects Houston Chronicle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

Original 262.1 kB
After minification 262.1 kB
After compression 247.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 233 B

Original 27.5 kB
After minification 27.5 kB
After compression 27.3 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. Projects.houstonchronicle.com has all CSS files already compressed.

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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 Projects Houston Chronicle. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.