Access sierraleonetimes.com. Sierra Leone Times - Independent Sierra Leone News Source

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,290 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.165

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

sierraleonetimes.com

34 ms

www.sierraleonetimes.com

88 ms

foundation.min.css

30 ms

white_style.css

78 ms

jquery.min.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sierraleonetimes.com, 32% (20 requests) were made to Static.midwestradionetwork.com and 21% (13 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (537 ms) relates to the external source Syndication.twitter.com.

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Sierraleonetimes.com main page is 1.4 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

Original 40.8 kB
After minification 28.1 kB
After compression 8.0 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 12.7 kB, which is 31% 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 32.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 1.1 MB

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. Sierra Leone Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

Original 119.6 kB
After minification 119.6 kB
After compression 117.5 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 755 B

Original 64.5 kB
After minification 64.5 kB
After compression 63.7 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. Sierraleonetimes.com has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sierra Leone Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.