Access mississippifreepress.org. Mississippi Free Press - Solutions Journalism

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,390 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

www.mississippifreepress.org

113 ms

buttons.min.css

27 ms

color-picker.min.css

28 ms

bdt-uikit.css

56 ms

ep-helper.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Mississippifreepress.org, 1% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (304 ms) belongs to the original domain Mississippifreepress.org.

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Mississippifreepress.org main page is 2.3 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 626.0 kB

Original 689.3 kB
After minification 609.0 kB
After compression 63.3 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 80.3 kB, which is 12% 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 626.0 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

Original 1.4 MB
After minification 1.4 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. Mississippi Free Press images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

Original 3.9 kB
After minification 3.9 kB
After compression 3.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

Original 206.4 kB
After minification 191.2 kB
After compression 190.0 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. Mississippifreepress.org has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mississippi Free Press. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.