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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

76/100

10%

help.ft.com

1009 ms

user.css

20 ms

style.css

16 ms

tabs.css

14 ms

section-index.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Help.ft.com, 7% (6 requests) were made to Im.media.ft.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Service.maxymiser.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) relates to the external source Tcr.tynt.com.

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

459.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Help.ft.com main page is 1.5 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

Original 57.3 kB
After minification 56.6 kB
After compression 18.7 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 38.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

Original 80.6 kB
After minification 75.6 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. Help Ft images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 853.0 kB

Original 1.2 MB
After minification 1.2 MB
After compression 339.1 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 853.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 154.2 kB

Original 180.0 kB
After minification 175.8 kB
After compression 25.8 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. Help.ft.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 154.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Help Ft. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.