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How heavy your page's own code is

Before a single picture or font arrives, the page itself has to download. On some sites that alone is bigger than a photograph. It is slow to appear on mobile data, and it is almost always something a web person can trim without changing how the page looks.

This is the page's own code only; the full page with images is heavier again.

Worth about 3 points of your 100 for a typical businessAbout n/a, by your host

See for yourself

Google's speed test shows the size of the page and what is in it.

How to fix it

  1. Ask your web person to remove unused plugins, page-builder leftovers and inline styles.
  2. Compress what remains; most hosts do this with one setting.
The technical version, for your web person

HTML weight. The byte size of the homepage response body. Under 200 KB earns the mark, under 600 KB half.

What the check reads. len(resp.content)/1024 — the raw decompressed HTML bytes only, nothing else.

This is one of the checks in a YLB Score report. Every report is free, read by a person before it goes out, and written so that you can act on it without us. Ask for yours.