Access southwalesargus.co.uk. South Wales News, Sport, Events in Newport & Gwent

southwalesargus.co.uk

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www.southwalesargus.co.uk

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gpt.js

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amzn_ads.js

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css

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Our browser made a total of 251 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (143 requests) were addressed to the original Southwalesargus.co.uk, 6% (14 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 4% (11 requests) were made to Pixel.quantserve.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Southwalesargus.co.uk.

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Southwalesargus.co.uk main page is 3.3 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 215.1 kB

Original 248.9 kB
After minification 156.5 kB
After compression 33.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 92.4 kB, which is 37% 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 215.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 238.2 kB

Original 1.6 MB
After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, South Wales Argus needs image optimization as it can save up to 238.2 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 901.4 kB

Original 1.3 MB
After minification 1.0 MB
After compression 354.3 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 901.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 163.5 kB

Original 199.8 kB
After minification 162.5 kB
After compression 36.3 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. Southwalesargus.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 163.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Now

237

After Optimization

136

The browser has sent 237 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Wales Argus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.