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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.546

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

8/100

10%

ict-pulse.com

151 ms

ict-pulse.com

500 ms

js

88 ms

style.min.css

41 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Ict-pulse.com, 20% (15 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 15% (11 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (809 ms) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Ict-pulse.com main page is 2.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 159.5 kB

Original 192.3 kB
After minification 183.3 kB
After compression 32.9 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 159.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 1.1 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. ICT Pulse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 83.3 kB

Original 640.2 kB
After minification 639.0 kB
After compression 556.9 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 83.3 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 71.6 kB

Original 188.6 kB
After minification 165.5 kB
After compression 117.0 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. Ict-pulse.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.6 kB or 38% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ICT Pulse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.