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plaintxt.org

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style.css

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jquery.min.js

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jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

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jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

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Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Plaintxt.org, 10% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (78 ms) belongs to the original domain Plaintxt.org.

Content Size

364.4 kB

After Optimization

273.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Plaintxt.org main page is 364.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 258.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

Original 45.0 kB
After minification 42.9 kB
After compression 11.9 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 33.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 55.1 kB

Original 258.1 kB
After minification 203.0 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, Plaintxt needs image optimization as it can save up to 55.1 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

Original 58.7 kB
After minification 58.7 kB
After compression 56.2 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 393 B

Original 2.5 kB
After minification 2.5 kB
After compression 2.1 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. Plaintxt.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 393 B or 15% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plaintxt. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.