Access federalreserve.gov. Federal Reserve Board

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

federalreserve.gov

123 ms

federalreserve.gov

51 ms

www.federalreserve.gov

98 ms

bootstrap.css

35 ms

bluesteel-theme.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Federalreserve.gov, 9% (3 requests) were made to Metrics.brightcove.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Players.brightcove.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (212 ms) belongs to the original domain Federalreserve.gov.

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Federalreserve.gov main page is 2.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 825.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 133.7 kB

Original 165.6 kB
After minification 136.6 kB
After compression 31.9 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 29.0 kB, which is 18% 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 133.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

Original 763.3 kB
After minification 692.3 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. Federal Reserve images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 533.8 kB

Original 825.6 kB
After minification 825.5 kB
After compression 291.7 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 533.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 330.8 kB

Original 532.8 kB
After minification 482.7 kB
After compression 202.0 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. Federalreserve.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 330.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Federal Reserve. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.