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projects.nola.com

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www.nola.com

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Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Projects.nola.com, 33% (24 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Nola.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (344 ms) relates to the external source Theadvocate.blueconic.net.

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Projects.nola.com main page is 2.8 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 496.5 kB

Original 557.9 kB
After minification 484.2 kB
After compression 61.4 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 73.7 kB, which is 13% 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 496.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

Original 46.3 kB
After minification 38.5 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, Projects NOLA needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 559.1 kB

Original 2.0 MB
After minification 2.0 MB
After compression 1.5 MB

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 559.1 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 29.6 kB

Original 138.5 kB
After minification 137.5 kB
After compression 108.9 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. Projects.nola.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.6 kB or 21% of the original size.

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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 Projects NOLA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.