Access letterfromthecapitol.com. LFTC - Letter From The Capitol

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

www.letterfromthecapitol.com

520 ms

styles.css

252 ms

flyouts-min.js

9 ms

recommend.js

61 ms

quant.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Letterfromthecapitol.com, 33% (7 requests) were made to Static.typepad.com and 14% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (586 ms) relates to the external source Wohlstetter.typepad.com.

Content Size

612.5 kB

After Optimization

126.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Letterfromthecapitol.com main page is 612.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 378.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

Original 25.5 kB
After minification 23.5 kB
After compression 6.2 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 19.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 55.3 kB

Original 118.6 kB
After minification 63.3 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. Obviously, Letter Fromthe Capitol needs image optimization as it can save up to 55.3 kB or 47% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

Original 90.1 kB
After minification 89.8 kB
After compression 48.7 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 41.4 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-98%

Potential reduce by 369.9 kB

Original 378.3 kB
After minification 34.2 kB
After compression 8.4 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. Letterfromthecapitol.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 369.9 kB or 98% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Letter Fromthe Capitol. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.