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der-westen.de

325 ms

www.derwesten.de

136 ms

platform.js

69 ms

plusone.js

99 ms

derwesten.js

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 447 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Der-westen.de, 28% (125 requests) were made to Derwesten.de and 4% (20 requests) were made to Waz-prospekte.soltest.de. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (996 ms) relates to the external source Waz-prospekte.soltest.de.

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Der-westen.de main page is 5.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 206.6 kB

Original 257.7 kB
After minification 231.2 kB
After compression 51.1 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 206.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 97.3 kB

Original 2.4 MB
After minification 2.3 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. De Rwesten images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 930.5 kB

Original 1.6 MB
After minification 1.5 MB
After compression 645.7 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 930.5 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 676.6 kB

Original 767.9 kB
After minification 577.8 kB
After compression 91.3 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. Der-westen.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 676.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Now

424

After Optimization

192

The browser has sent 424 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of De Rwesten. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 112 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.