Page size and compression checker.

Why page weight matters

Every kilobyte has to travel to your visitor's phone, often over a mobile connection. Heavy pages load slowly, use up data plans and drain batteries, and slow pages lose visitors: the longer the wait, the more people give up. Page speed is also part of Google's page experience signals through Core Web Vitals.

A reasonable target for a small business page is under 1.5 MB in total, and well under 1 MB is better on mobile.

Compression: the free win

Text files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG) shrink by 70% or more when compressed with gzip or Brotli, and every modern browser handles it automatically. It's a server setting, often a single switch. On cPanel hosting it's usually under "Optimize Website"; on Cloudflare it's on by default. Images and fonts are already compressed, so don't gain from it.

Where the weight usually comes from

• Images uploaded straight from a camera or phone, several megabytes each. Resize to the size shown and convert to WebP.
• Sliders and galleries loading every image at once.
• Page builders and multipurpose themes loading scripts for features the page doesn't use.
• Plugins that each add their own CSS and JavaScript to every page.
• Chat widgets, video embeds and multiple tracking tags from third parties.
• Several font families and weights.

What this tool measures

We measure the files referenced in the page HTML, as sent over the network, up to 40 files. Images loaded later by scripts, lazy-loaded below the fold, or pulled in from CSS aren't counted, so the real total can be higher. For a complete picture of real-world speed, use Google PageSpeed Insights alongside this. If the numbers are bad, our speed optimisation service fixes them.