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sundayindependent.co.uk

Sunday Independent – The south west's only regional Sunday newspaper

Page Load Speed

203 ms in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

116 ms

Page Rendered

70 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sundayindependent.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 17 ms and then it took 186 ms 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

sundayindependent.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sundayindependent.co.uk

17 ms

www.indyonline.co.uk

38 ms

indyonline.co.uk

30 ms

b.gif

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sundayindependent.co.uk, 50% (2 requests) were made to Indyonline.co.uk and 25% (1 request) were made to Pixel.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (38 ms) relates to the external source Indyonline.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.7 kB (1%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Sundayindependent.co.uk main page is 1.1 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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 1.7 kB or 57% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Sunday Independent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 809 B

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. Sundayindependent.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sunday Independent. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

sundayindependent.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 Sundayindependent.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 Sundayindependent.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 description is not detected on the main page of Sunday Independent. 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: