Access providence.com. The Providence Journal: Local News, Politics & Sports in Providence, RI

providence.com

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www.providencejournal.com

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beacon.js

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pp4.js

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Our browser made a total of 578 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Providence.com, 14% (81 requests) were made to Providencejournal.com and 13% (75 requests) were made to S3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Providence.com main page is 6.2 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 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 238.5 kB

Original 297.1 kB
After minification 276.4 kB
After compression 58.6 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 238.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 222.4 kB

Original 1.2 MB
After minification 986.8 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. Obviously, Providence needs image optimization as it can save up to 222.4 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.9 MB

Original 4.4 MB
After minification 4.4 MB
After compression 1.5 MB

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 2.9 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 283.8 kB

Original 347.7 kB
After minification 328.4 kB
After compression 63.9 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. Providence.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 283.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Now

519

After Optimization

238

The browser has sent 519 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Providence. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 123 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.