Access visualstudio.microsoft.com. Visual Studio: IDE and Code Editor for Software Developers and Teams

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

visualstudio.microsoft.com

72 ms

vscom-swimlane.css

45 ms

microsoft-uhf.css

32 ms

vscom-video-player.min.css

31 ms

vscom-feature-hero.min.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 146 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (132 requests) were addressed to the original Visualstudio.microsoft.com, 3% (5 requests) were made to C.s-microsoft.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Microsoft.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (391 ms) belongs to the original domain Visualstudio.microsoft.com.

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

575.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Visualstudio.microsoft.com main page is 1.3 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. Javascripts take 552.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 269.7 kB

Original 329.5 kB
After minification 310.2 kB
After compression 59.8 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 269.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

Original 178.5 kB
After minification 170.7 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. Visual Studio Microsoft images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 361.1 kB

Original 552.7 kB
After minification 552.7 kB
After compression 191.6 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 361.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 93.9 kB

Original 247.0 kB
After minification 246.8 kB
After compression 153.1 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. Visualstudio.microsoft.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.9 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visual Studio Microsoft. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 69 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.