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pfsense.com

328 ms

www.pfsense.org

794 ms

css

231 ms

VarelaRound-Regular.ttf

169 ms

font-awesome.min.css

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Pfsense.com, 70% (23 requests) were made to Pfsense.org and 21% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

574.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Pfsense.com main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 597.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

Original 34.4 kB
After minification 34.4 kB
After compression 10.3 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 24.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

Original 382.1 kB
After minification 371.4 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. PfSense images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 158.2 kB

Original 266.6 kB
After minification 251.9 kB
After compression 108.4 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 158.2 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 513.1 kB

Original 597.4 kB
After minification 502.4 kB
After compression 84.3 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. Pfsense.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 513.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PfSense. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.