Access innovationhub.org. Innovation Hub | Great Minds, Great Conversations

1596 ms

gtm.js

133 ms

screen.css

61 ms

base.css

60 ms

css

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Innovationhub.org, 16% (18 requests) were made to Blogs.wgbh.org and 9% (11 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) relates to the external source Play.prx.org.

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Innovationhub.org main page is 2.6 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 374.2 kB

Original 417.2 kB
After minification 251.0 kB
After compression 43.0 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 166.2 kB, which is 40% 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 374.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 110.5 kB

Original 2.0 MB
After minification 1.8 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. Innovation Hub images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

Original 148.6 kB
After minification 148.6 kB
After compression 111.4 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 37.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 36.4 kB

Original 49.4 kB
After minification 38.6 kB
After compression 13.0 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. Innovationhub.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Innovation Hub. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.