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kr.wsj.com

46 ms

asia

70 ms

wsj-fonts.css

63 ms

wsjvideo.min.css

70 ms

SectionPage.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kr.wsj.com, 28% (19 requests) were made to and 18% (12 requests) were made to Si.wsj.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (728 ms) relates to the external source Si.wsj.net.

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Kr.wsj.com main page is 6.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 696.8 kB

Original 855.2 kB
After minification 855.2 kB
After compression 158.5 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 696.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

Original 314.7 kB
After minification 308.6 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. Kr Wsj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.2 MB

Original 3.1 MB
After minification 3.1 MB
After compression 873.7 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 2.2 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 852.7 kB

Original 1.9 MB
After minification 1.9 MB
After compression 1.0 MB

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. Kr.wsj.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 852.7 kB or 46% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kr Wsj. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.