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thedesign-er.com

149 ms

style.css

116 ms

layout.css

93 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

126 ms

jquery.twitter.js

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Thedesign-er.com, 20% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 15% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (313 ms) belongs to the original domain Thedesign-er.com.

Content Size

372.8 kB

After Optimization

302.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Thedesign-er.com main page is 372.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 193.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

Original 10.2 kB
After minification 9.0 kB
After compression 3.2 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 1.2 kB, which is 12% 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 7.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

Original 193.8 kB
After minification 189.0 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. The Designer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 51.1 kB

Original 159.6 kB
After minification 157.9 kB
After compression 108.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 51.1 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

Original 9.2 kB
After minification 6.9 kB
After compression 1.9 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. Thedesign-er.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Designer. 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.