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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,720 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.105

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

transportationnation.org

13 ms

26 ms

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49 ms

font-awesome.min.css

46 ms

f962a4927b00.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 198 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Transportationnation.org, 45% (89 requests) were made to Media.wnyc.org and 15% (29 requests) were made to Media2.wnyc.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Media2.wnyc.org.

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Transportationnation.org main page is 5.9 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

Original 75.4 kB
After minification 64.4 kB
After compression 15.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.0 kB, which is 15% 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 60.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 283.8 kB

Original 2.4 MB
After minification 2.2 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. Obviously, Transportation Nation needs image optimization as it can save up to 283.8 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

Original 2.6 MB
After minification 2.5 MB
After compression 752.0 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 1.9 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 320.7 kB

Original 708.7 kB
After minification 666.0 kB
After compression 388.0 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. Transportationnation.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 320.7 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Now

187

After Optimization

The browser has sent 187 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Transportation Nation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 91 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.