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Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Railsforum.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to I2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Activate.tapatalk.com.

Content Size

881.6 kB

After Optimization

351.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Railsforum.com main page is 881.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 522.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

Original 106.9 kB
After minification 101.8 kB
After compression 23.8 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 83.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

Original 235.6 kB
After minification 206.8 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, Rails Forum needs image optimization as it can save up to 28.8 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 404.5 kB

Original 522.3 kB
After minification 389.8 kB
After compression 117.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 404.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

Original 16.8 kB
After minification 13.0 kB
After compression 3.0 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. Railsforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rails Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.