Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

15.8 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

15.3 sec

Page Rendered

399 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Independent.gmnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 15.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

independent.gmnews.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

independent.gmnews.com

101 ms

ind.gmnews.com

2708 ms

rounded_corners.js

5 ms

swfobject.js

6 ms

moviefunc.js

5 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Independent.gmnews.com, 35% (44 requests) were made to Ind.gmnews.com and 17% (21 requests) were made to Gmnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Ind.gmnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 507.3 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

890.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Independent.gmnews.com main page is 1.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 708.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 77.6 kB

  • Original 95.5 kB
  • After minification 91.1 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 77.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 708.3 kB
  • After minification 684.0 kB

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. Independent Gmnews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 351.8 kB

  • Original 525.3 kB
  • After minification 481.2 kB
  • After compression 173.5 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 351.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

  • Original 68.7 kB
  • After minification 66.9 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. Independent.gmnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (50%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Independent Gmnews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

independent.gmnews.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Independent.gmnews.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Independent.gmnews.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 description is not detected on the main page of Independent Gmnews. 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: