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slideshow.nbcnews.com

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photo

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Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Slideshow.nbcnews.com, 15% (15 requests) were made to Nodeassets.nbcnews.com and 11% (11 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (664 ms) relates to the external source Newsvine.com.

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Slideshow.nbcnews.com main page is 3.6 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 857.6 kB

Original 941.1 kB
After minification 908.7 kB
After compression 83.5 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 857.6 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

Original 512.5 kB
After minification 504.9 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. Slideshow NBC News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

Original 2.1 MB
After minification 2.0 MB
After compression 569.8 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 1.5 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

Original 48.3 kB
After minification 48.3 kB
After compression 11.1 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. Slideshow.nbcnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Slideshow NBC News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.