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Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theexchange.thegrowers-exchange.com, 69% (65 requests) were made to Theherbexchange.com and 16% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (967 ms) relates to the external source Theherbexchange.com.

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Theexchange.thegrowers-exchange.com main page is 3.5 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. 75% 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 103.4 kB

Original 133.4 kB
After minification 130.7 kB
After compression 30.0 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 103.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

Original 1.8 MB
After minification 1.7 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. The Exchange Growers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 683.3 kB

Original 935.7 kB
After minification 856.2 kB
After compression 252.4 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 683.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 507.5 kB

Original 605.4 kB
After minification 545.4 kB
After compression 97.9 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. Theexchange.thegrowers-exchange.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 507.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Exchange Growers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.