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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

rugbyweek.co.za

685 ms

www.rugbyweek.com

1726 ms

analytics.js

42 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

133 ms

ultimate-tables.css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 185 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rugbyweek.co.za, 29% (53 requests) were made to Rugbyweek.com and 10% (19 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Rugbyweek.com.

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Rugbyweek.co.za main page is 2.0 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. 80% 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 867.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 192.5 kB

Original 244.4 kB
After minification 236.9 kB
After compression 51.9 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 192.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

Original 677.1 kB
After minification 670.3 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. Rugbyweek images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 553.8 kB

Original 867.1 kB
After minification 799.3 kB
After compression 313.3 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 553.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 204.5 kB

Original 242.8 kB
After minification 204.8 kB
After compression 38.3 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. Rugbyweek.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 204.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Now

171

After Optimization

The browser has sent 171 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rugbyweek. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.