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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.064

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

richmond.com

20 ms

richmond.com

75 ms

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94 ms

layout.5bce7eb56c23d79d6ab89ab093c281ea.css

118 ms

lee.ds.css

107 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Timesdispatch.com, 24% (18 requests) were made to Richmond.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

606.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Timesdispatch.com main page is 1.2 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. 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. HTML takes 557.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 506.1 kB

Original 557.9 kB
After minification 459.2 kB
After compression 51.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 98.7 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 506.1 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

Original 15.5 kB
After minification 15.5 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. Times Dispatch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

Original 512.5 kB
After minification 512.4 kB
After compression 475.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

Original 79.4 kB
After minification 79.4 kB
After compression 63.6 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. Timesdispatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.7 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Times Dispatch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.