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thexfiles.com

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Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

967 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thexfiles.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thexfiles.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thexfiles.com

170 ms

the-x-files

44 ms

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38 ms

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23 ms

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25 ms

Our browser made a total of 151 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thexfiles.com, 28% (43 requests) were made to Fox.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (722 ms) relates to the external source Pbs.twimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (48%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Thexfiles.com main page is 3.4 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 181.6 kB

  • Original 212.5 kB
  • After minification 205.2 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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 181.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 62.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. The X Files images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 745.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 922.5 kB
  • After compression 312.5 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 745.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 667.9 kB

  • Original 895.2 kB
  • After minification 884.5 kB
  • After compression 227.3 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. Thexfiles.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 667.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (55%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The X Files. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thexfiles.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thexfiles.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thexfiles.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The X Files. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: