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Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Farecompare.com, 25% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (66 ms) relates to the external source Static.cloudflareinsights.com.

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Farecompare.com main page is 6.2 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

Original 16.4 kB
After minification 16.4 kB
After compression 7.3 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 9.1 kB or 56% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

Original 3.7 MB
After minification 3.6 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. Fare Compare images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

Original 1.9 MB
After minification 1.7 MB
After compression 491.4 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 1.4 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 498.4 kB

Original 624.7 kB
After minification 600.8 kB
After compression 126.4 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. Farecompare.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 498.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fare Compare. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.