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www.wsj.com

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Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Thewallstreetjournal.com, 22% (7 requests) were made to Images.wsj.net and 19% (6 requests) were made to Na.rdcpix.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Images.wsj.net.

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Thewallstreetjournal.com main page is 4.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 3.6 MB

Original 4.0 MB
After minification 4.0 MB
After compression 356.2 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 3.6 MB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

Original 197.9 kB
After minification 191.8 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 Wall Street Journal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

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Potential reduce by 0 B

Original 738.4 kB
After minification 738.4 kB
After compression 738.4 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 83 B

Original 16.5 kB
After minification 16.5 kB
After compression 16.4 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. Thewallstreetjournal.com has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Wall Street Journal. 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.