Report Summary

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pricewatch.com

Pricewatch - The Internet's first price comparison site. Established 1995

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

934 ms

Page Rendered

471 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pricewatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

pricewatch.com

59 ms

css

24 ms

detect1.js

106 ms

jquery.min.js

34 ms

plusone.js

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Pricewatch.com, 20% (20 requests) were made to I0.pricewatch.com and 16% (16 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (292 ms) belongs to the original domain Pricewatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 221.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Pricewatch.com main page is 2.9 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. 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. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 22.1 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 3.9 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 16.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 82.3 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Pricewatch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 99.8 kB

  • Original 169.1 kB
  • After minification 144.1 kB
  • After compression 69.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 99.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 24.2 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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. Pricewatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (38%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pricewatch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pricewatch.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Pricewatch.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Pricewatch. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: