Access rossstores.com. Ross Dress For Less

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

rossstores.com

62 ms

www.rossstores.com

199 ms

api.js

56 ms

mainCssBundle

45 ms

secondCssBundle

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Rossstores.com, 16% (24 requests) were made to Az770455.vo.msecnd.net and 16% (23 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Pixel.rubiconproject.com.

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Rossstores.com main page is 3.1 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

Original 75.4 kB
After minification 67.5 kB
After compression 21.1 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 54.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 1.1 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. Ross Stores images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 833.1 kB

Original 1.2 MB
After minification 1.2 MB
After compression 379.5 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 833.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 491.4 kB

Original 712.1 kB
After minification 702.9 kB
After compression 220.7 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. Rossstores.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 491.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ross Stores. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.