Report Summary

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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itimes.com

Trending stories on Indian Lifestyle, Culture, Relationships, Food, Travel, Entertainment, News and New Technology News - Indiatimes.com

Page Load Speed

79 sec in total

First Response

561 ms

Resources Loaded

46.2 sec

Page Rendered

32.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 561 ms and then it took 78.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itimes.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

itimes.com

561 ms

www.indiatimes.com

967 ms

font.min.css

246 ms

style.min.css

246 ms

core_require.min.js

485 ms

Our browser made a total of 169 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Itimes.com, 50% (84 requests) were made to Media.indiatimes.in and 18% (30 requests) were made to Staticresources.indiatimes.in. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (17.5 sec) relates to the external source Media.indiatimes.in.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.7 MB (34%)

Content Size

10.9 MB

After Optimization

7.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Itimes.com main page is 10.9 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. 80% 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 5.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 155.2 kB

  • Original 186.4 kB
  • After minification 183.1 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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 155.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 118.3 kB

  • Original 5.9 MB
  • After minification 5.8 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. Itimes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 2.9 MB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.9 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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 2.9 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 571.4 kB

  • Original 691.6 kB
  • After minification 662.2 kB
  • After compression 120.2 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. Itimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 571.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (32%)

Requests Now

157

After Optimization

106

The browser has sent 157 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Itimes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

itimes.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 Itimes.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 Itimes.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 Itimes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: