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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

en.ara.cat

407 ms

loader.js

604 ms

app-legacy.h-0cc41c73cbe809da6477.css

152 ms

enaracat.js

610 ms

lazyload.min.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original En.ara.cat, 16% (6 requests) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com and 14% (5 requests) were made to Static1.ara.cat. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Static1.ara.cat.

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

888.3 kB

In fact, the total size of En.ara.cat main page is 1.2 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. Javascripts take 760.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 181.6 kB

Original 216.5 kB
After minification 212.7 kB
After compression 35.0 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 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

Original 136.7 kB
After minification 124.8 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. En ARA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 141.5 kB

Original 760.2 kB
After minification 760.2 kB
After compression 618.8 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 141.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 665 B

Original 110.4 kB
After minification 110.4 kB
After compression 109.8 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. En.ara.cat has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of En ARA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.