Report Summary

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overblown.co.uk

Overblown | Alternative Rock/Metal Reviews, Interviews, Lists & More.

Page Load Speed

21 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

18.6 sec

Page Rendered

740 ms

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About Website

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Overblown Webzine is a UK and Ireland based alternative rock/metal website with a focus on community and our readers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Overblown.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 19.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

overblown.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

overblown.co.uk

1667 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

221 ms

validationEngine.jquery.css

161 ms

style.css

162 ms

styles.css

162 ms

Our browser made a total of 327 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Overblown.co.uk, 9% (28 requests) were made to I2.sndcdn.com and 8% (25 requests) were made to I3.sndcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.1 sec) relates to the external source Widgets.itunes.apple.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (48%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Overblown.co.uk main page is 5.0 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. 85% 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 378.3 kB

  • Original 477.0 kB
  • After minification 474.3 kB
  • After compression 98.6 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 378.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 81.2 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Overblown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 790.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 399.7 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 790.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 326.9 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. Overblown.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 192 (61%)

Requests Now

314

After Optimization

122

The browser has sent 314 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Overblown. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

overblown.co.uk SEO score

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