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wesa.org

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www.wesa.org

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www.wesa.fm

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All.min.bf24899ccfabaafe4b1cbc190dc05b03.gz.css

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All.min.5bbd9c88c37abf8eaceafad4281c1fe9.gz.js

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Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Wesa.org, 80% (55 requests) were made to Npr.brightspotcdn.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (248 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Wesa.org main page is 2.4 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. 75% 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 235.7 kB

Original 278.2 kB
After minification 231.3 kB
After compression 42.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 47.0 kB, which is 17% 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 235.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

Original 1.4 MB
After minification 1.4 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. WESA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 96.8 kB

Original 592.4 kB
After minification 587.9 kB
After compression 495.6 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 96.8 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

Original 67.3 kB
After minification 67.3 kB
After compression 66.0 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. Wesa.org has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WESA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.