Access beyondtheheadlines.org. Beyond the Headlines – Seeking the other side of the story

www.beyondtheheadlines.org

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wp-emoji-release.min.js

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style.min.css

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wp-image-borders.css

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jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

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Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Beyondtheheadlines.org, 15% (5 requests) were made to I1.wp.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to I2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source I2.wp.com.

Content Size

480.0 kB

After Optimization

238.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Beyondtheheadlines.org main page is 480.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 224.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

Original 34.1 kB
After minification 30.7 kB
After compression 7.7 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 26.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 17 B

Original 132.8 kB
After minification 132.8 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. Beyond The Headlines images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 144.1 kB

Original 224.6 kB
After minification 222.3 kB
After compression 80.5 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 144.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 71.2 kB

Original 88.5 kB
After minification 86.4 kB
After compression 17.3 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. Beyondtheheadlines.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beyond The Headlines. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.