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www.fastcompany.co.za

376 ms

gtm.js

136 ms

theme.css

20 ms

style.min.css

57 ms

style.min.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 165 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (123 requests) were addressed to the original Fastcompany.co.za, 4% (6 requests) were made to P.clarity.ms and 2% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Fastcompany.co.za.

Content Size

10.1 MB

After Optimization

9.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Fastcompany.co.za main page is 10.1 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 9.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 126.9 kB

Original 155.6 kB
After minification 148.9 kB
After compression 28.8 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 126.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 243.4 kB

Original 9.2 MB
After minification 9.0 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. Fast Company images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 77.4 kB

Original 502.0 kB
After minification 502.0 kB
After compression 424.6 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 77.4 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

Original 181.3 kB
After minification 181.3 kB
After compression 175.6 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. Fastcompany.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fast Company. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 46 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.