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theplanet.com

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www.softlayer.com

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Our browser made a total of 313 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theplanet.com, 9% (29 requests) were made to Static.softlayer.com and 8% (24 requests) were made to Pixel.mathtag.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (18 sec) relates to the external source Collect.tealiumiq.com.

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Theplanet.com main page is 6.2 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 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 78.0 kB

Original 105.1 kB
After minification 100.5 kB
After compression 27.2 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. 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 78.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

Original 1.4 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. Theplanet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 3.0 MB

Original 4.0 MB
After minification 3.4 MB
After compression 1.0 MB

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 3.0 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 616.2 kB

Original 743.5 kB
After minification 720.0 kB
After compression 127.3 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. Theplanet.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 616.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Now

264

After Optimization

The browser has sent 264 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theplanet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 95 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.