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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

itv.com.mt

Television Advertising Malta | iTV Malta | iTV Malta

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

317 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

241 ms

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About Website

Welcome to itv.com.mt homepage info - get ready to check ITV best content right away, or after learning these important things about itv.com.mt

Founded in 2006 ITV Shopping Channel, was the first medium in Malta offering marketing and promotional solutions around the clock, seven days a week.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itv.com.mt page load time and found that the first response time was 317 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itv.com.mt performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.159

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

itv.com.mt

317 ms

itv.com.mt

334 ms

home.htm

245 ms

ltr.css

85 ms

bootstrap.min.css

257 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Itv.com.mt, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (854 ms) belongs to the original domain Itv.com.mt.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 332.9 kB (39%)

Content Size

854.5 kB

After Optimization

521.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Itv.com.mt main page is 854.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 424.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 32.3 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 6.6 kB, which is 20% 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 27.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 68.9 kB

  • Original 370.1 kB
  • After minification 301.2 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. Obviously, ITV needs image optimization as it can save up to 68.9 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 234.4 kB

  • Original 424.4 kB
  • After minification 368.8 kB
  • After compression 190.1 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 234.4 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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. Itv.com.mt has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (28%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ITV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

itv.com.mt

itv.com.mt

317 ms

itv.com.mt

itv.com.mt

334 ms

home.htm

home.htm

245 ms

ltr.css

ltr.css

85 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

257 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

241 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

313 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

75 ms

jquery-migrate-1.0.0.js

jquery-migrate-1.0.0.js

310 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

366 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

jquery.tools.min.js

364 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

392 ms

jquery.watermarkinput.js

jquery.watermarkinput.js

368 ms

jquery.equalheights.min.js

jquery.equalheights.min.js

388 ms

jcarousellite.min.js

jcarousellite.min.js

389 ms

jquery.anythingslider.js

jquery.anythingslider.js

453 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

454 ms

jquery.validate-additional-methods.js

jquery.validate-additional-methods.js

394 ms

md5.js

md5.js

452 ms

app.js

app.js

463 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

464 ms

js

js

105 ms

logo-itv.png

logo-itv.png

261 ms

image.png

image.png

271 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

264 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

264 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

305 ms

featurePrev.png

featurePrev.png

263 ms

image.png

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266 ms

image.jpg

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430 ms

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424 ms

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357 ms

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442 ms

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448 ms

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486 ms

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503 ms

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588 ms

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595 ms

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591 ms

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598 ms

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645 ms

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649 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

663 ms

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669 ms

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671 ms

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672 ms

featureNext.png

featureNext.png

720 ms

image.gif

image.gif

854 ms

rates.png

rates.png

715 ms

uml-logo.png

uml-logo.png

719 ms

contact-img.png

contact-img.png

721 ms

menu-background.png

menu-background.png

710 ms

gen_204

gen_204

149 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

114 ms

collect

collect

7 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

50 ms

fancybox_overlay.png

fancybox_overlay.png

78 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

78 ms

fancybox_sprite.png

fancybox_sprite.png

92 ms

fancybox_loading.gif

fancybox_loading.gif

91 ms

Accessibility Review

itv.com.mt accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

itv.com.mt best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

itv.com.mt SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

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 Itv.com.mt 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 Itv.com.mt 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

itv.com.mt

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of ITV. 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: