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westernpeople.com

1203 ms

css

38 ms

bootstrap.min.css

178 ms

responsivemobilemenu.css

171 ms

style.css

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 212 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Westernpeople.com, 16% (33 requests) were made to Westernpeople.ie and 11% (23 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Irishexaminer.com.

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Westernpeople.com main page is 2.6 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 89.3 kB

Original 122.2 kB
After minification 119.2 kB
After compression 32.9 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 89.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

Original 1.8 MB
After minification 1.7 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. Western People images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 370.8 kB

Original 571.4 kB
After minification 559.3 kB
After compression 200.6 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 370.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 95.3 kB

Original 113.4 kB
After minification 99.4 kB
After compression 18.1 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. Westernpeople.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 95.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Now

180

After Optimization

The browser has sent 180 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western People. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.