Access stores.lulu.com. Online Self Publishing Book & eBook Company

www.lulu.com

984 ms

style.css

75 ms

bootstrap.min.css

81 ms

jquery.share.css

80 ms

responsiveChrome.css

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Stores.lulu.com, 13% (14 requests) were made to Lulu.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (984 ms) relates to the external source Lulu.com.

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Stores.lulu.com main page is 2.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

Original 39.3 kB
After minification 29.7 kB
After compression 7.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.5 kB, which is 24% 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 31.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

Original 1.7 MB
After minification 1.7 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. Stores Lulu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 399.0 kB

Original 582.2 kB
After minification 561.9 kB
After compression 183.2 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 399.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 140.3 kB

Original 169.1 kB
After minification 158.7 kB
After compression 28.7 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. Stores.lulu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 140.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stores Lulu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.