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media.melbournecup.com

Official Site | 2021 Melbourne Cup Carnival | 30 Oct - 6 Nov Flemington

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

504 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

475 ms

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About Website

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The official digital destination for racing, fashion and more for the 2021 Melbourne Cup Carnival, including AAMI Victoria Derby, Lexus Melbourne Cup, Kennedy Oaks and Seppelt Wines Stakes race days.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Media.melbournecup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 504 ms and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

media.melbournecup.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

media.melbournecup.com

504 ms

melbourne-cup-carnival

1150 ms

utilities.8D8E7480DCB70E694566E8E62A75A7E0.min.css

1153 ms

global.02073DC061E2527C7B124B9F0E78489D.min.css

1567 ms

main.627CF0400D01510FD4E52D4810FBED5C.min.css

1785 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Media.melbournecup.com, 50% (43 requests) were made to Cdn.racing.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Flemington.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.racing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (69%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

767.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Media.melbournecup.com main page is 2.5 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 109.4 kB

  • Original 147.8 kB
  • After minification 127.6 kB
  • After compression 38.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.1 kB, which is 14% 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 109.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 215.5 kB
  • After minification 202.8 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. Media Melbourne Cup images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 791.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 404.0 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 791.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 800.4 kB

  • Original 923.2 kB
  • After minification 919.1 kB
  • After compression 122.7 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. Media.melbournecup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 800.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (42%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Media Melbourne Cup. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

media.melbournecup.com 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 Media.melbournecup.com 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 Media.melbournecup.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 Media Melbourne Cup. 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: