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community.channel4.com

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community

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community

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adrum.js

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all4nav.css

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Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Community.channel4.com, 29% (19 requests) were made to Static.bips.channel4.com and 22% (14 requests) were made to All4nav.channel4.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (535 ms) relates to the external source Static.bips.channel4.com.

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

352.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Community.channel4.com main page is 1.9 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. CSS take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 39.1 kB

Original 48.3 kB
After minification 41.3 kB
After compression 9.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.0 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 39.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

Original 8.3 kB
After minification 6.9 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. Obviously, Community Channel 4 needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 579.6 kB

Original 812.8 kB
After minification 795.6 kB
After compression 233.2 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 579.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 908.7 kB

Original 1.0 MB
After minification 1.0 MB
After compression 103.2 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. Community.channel4.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 908.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Community Channel 4. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.