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dc.sla.org

7335 ms

style.css

125 ms

slider.css

115 ms

fbstyle.css

210 ms

cn-user.min.css

144 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Dc.sla.org, 6% (3 requests) were made to Farm6.staticflickr.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Flickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Dc.sla.org.

Content Size

540.6 kB

After Optimization

253.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Dc.sla.org main page is 540.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 223.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

Original 54.4 kB
After minification 50.1 kB
After compression 10.5 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 43.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

Original 158.6 kB
After minification 154.0 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. DC SLA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 153.0 kB

Original 223.3 kB
After minification 213.5 kB
After compression 70.2 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 153.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 85.8 kB

Original 104.3 kB
After minification 84.7 kB
After compression 18.6 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. Dc.sla.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 85.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DC SLA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.