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forces.tv

Forces Network

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

852 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Forces content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about forces.tv

The latest news on the UK Armed Forces and from the wider military world. Forces News, Forces Sport, Forces TV video, and Forces Radio – BFBS listen live and listen again. Plus BFBS TV, Forces Cinemas...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forces.tv page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forces.tv performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Forces.tv, 9% (9 requests) were made to Revive.ssvc.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Forces.tv.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (35%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forces.tv main page is 3.6 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 154.6 kB

  • Original 195.6 kB
  • After minification 189.3 kB
  • After compression 41.0 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 154.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 198.6 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Forces images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 781.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 919.5 kB
  • After compression 304.2 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 781.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 136.9 kB

  • Original 164.6 kB
  • After minification 163.7 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Forces.tv needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 136.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (47%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

51

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The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forces. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

forces.tv SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forces.tv can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Forces.tv 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

forces.tv

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Forces. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: