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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

thehackernews.com

153 ms

cloudflare.min.js

8 ms

css

22 ms

font-awesome.min.css

7 ms

rocket.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Thehackernews.com, 15% (14 requests) were made to 3.bp.blogspot.com and 14% (13 requests) were made to 1.bp.blogspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (380 ms) relates to the external source Sumome.com.

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Thehackernews.com main page is 5.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 108.1 kB

Original 138.8 kB
After minification 131.3 kB
After compression 30.6 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 108.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 304.6 kB

Original 4.5 MB
After minification 4.2 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. The Hacker News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 180.7 kB

Original 310.8 kB
After minification 310.7 kB
After compression 130.2 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 180.7 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

Original 28.2 kB
After minification 28.1 kB
After compression 6.5 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. Thehackernews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hacker News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.