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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

opennews.org

41 ms

opennews.org

22 ms

npu3izb.css

157 ms

normalise.css

16 ms

slim-10_7.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Opennews.org, 28% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (157 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Content Size

203.9 kB

After Optimization

125.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Opennews.org main page is 203.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 93.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

Original 17.1 kB
After minification 14.7 kB
After compression 4.5 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 2.4 kB, which is 14% 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 12.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 65.0 kB

Original 93.2 kB
After minification 28.2 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, Open News needs image optimization as it can save up to 65.0 kB or 70% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 941 B

Original 92.7 kB
After minification 92.7 kB
After compression 91.8 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

-15%

Potential reduce by 126 B

Original 859 B
After minification 854 B
After compression 733 B

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. Opennews.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 126 B or 15% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Open News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.