Access better.tv. The Better Show

better.tv

377 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.10.custom.css

227 ms

global.css

197 ms

mediatiles.css

211 ms

default.css

203 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Better.tv, 61% (53 requests) were made to Video.better.tv and 5% (4 requests) were made to Widget.nextguide.tv. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (417 ms) relates to the external source Video.better.tv.

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Better.tv main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 331.9 kB

Original 411.5 kB
After minification 403.5 kB
After compression 79.7 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 331.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 91.7 kB

Original 1.8 MB
After minification 1.7 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. Better images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 525.4 kB

Original 737.7 kB
After minification 655.2 kB
After compression 212.3 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 525.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 142.8 kB

Original 173.8 kB
After minification 162.5 kB
After compression 31.0 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. Better.tv needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 142.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Better. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.