Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

player.stv.tv

STV Player | Everything that’s on STV plus a whole lot more

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

6 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

383 ms

player.stv.tv screenshot

About Website

Visit player.stv.tv now to see the best up-to-date Player STV content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about player.stv.tv

Gripping drama box sets, eye-opening documentaries, true crime and absolute classics. STV Player, TV you’ll love for free.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Player.stv.tv page load time and found that the first response time was 6 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

player.stv.tv performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,270 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.193

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

player.stv.tv

6 ms

player.stv.tv

800 ms

b1c7906582135473.css

156 ms

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

226 ms

webpack-6650ecb2f44ba3a3.js

225 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Player.stv.tv, 11% (3 requests) were made to Cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (800 ms) belongs to the original domain Player.stv.tv.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 621.1 kB (73%)

Content Size

852.7 kB

After Optimization

231.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Player.stv.tv main page is 852.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 683.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 620.3 kB

  • Original 683.7 kB
  • After minification 683.6 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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 620.3 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 675 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.2 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, Player STV needs image optimization as it can save up to 675 B or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 46 B

  • Original 167.1 kB
  • After minification 167.1 kB
  • After compression 167.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (81%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Player STV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

player.stv.tv accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

player.stv.tv best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

player.stv.tv SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Player.stv.tv 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 Player.stv.tv 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 Player STV. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: