Access readysteadyscience.com. Ready, Steady, Science! | Simon Watt-Biologist, Science Communicator, Writer, TV Presenter.

readysteadyscience.com

441 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

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style.min.css

352 ms

styles.css

435 ms

public.min.css

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Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Readysteadyscience.com, 24% (25 requests) were made to I2.wp.com and 20% (21 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (986 ms) belongs to the original domain Readysteadyscience.com.

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

903.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Readysteadyscience.com main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 760.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 110.4 kB

Original 124.1 kB
After minification 121.3 kB
After compression 13.7 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 110.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

Original 760.8 kB
After minification 750.7 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. Ready Steady Science images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 114.3 kB

Original 180.1 kB
After minification 174.6 kB
After compression 65.8 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 114.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

Original 76.6 kB
After minification 76.6 kB
After compression 73.3 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. Readysteadyscience.com has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ready Steady Science. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.