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validationEngine.jquery.css

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styles.css

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zilla-likes.css

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Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Catchafireblog.org, 17% (16 requests) were made to Pixel.wp.com and 9% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Catchafireblog.org.

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Catchafireblog.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

Original 87.0 kB
After minification 83.9 kB
After compression 16.1 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 71.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

Original 1.6 MB
After minification 1.6 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. Catchafire Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 346.5 kB

Original 473.1 kB
After minification 387.5 kB
After compression 126.7 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 346.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 194.7 kB

Original 238.3 kB
After minification 172.4 kB
After compression 43.6 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. Catchafireblog.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 194.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catchafire Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.