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thebox.co.uk

The Box | The UKs premier music TV network

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

164 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebox.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebox.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thebox.co.uk

199 ms

www.thebox.co.uk

207 ms

www.boxplus.com

809 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

215 ms

bootstrap_tab.min.css

212 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Thebox.co.uk, 38% (41 requests) were made to Boxplus.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Boxplus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.9 kB (58%)

Content Size

809.2 kB

After Optimization

340.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Thebox.co.uk main page is 809.2 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 473.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 26.6 kB

  • Original 34.8 kB
  • After minification 32.4 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 26.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 69.8 kB

  • Original 202.1 kB
  • After minification 132.3 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, The Box needs image optimization as it can save up to 69.8 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 305.0 kB

  • Original 473.2 kB
  • After minification 459.1 kB
  • After compression 168.2 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 305.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 67.5 kB

  • Original 99.1 kB
  • After minification 84.0 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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. Thebox.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 67.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (80%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Box. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thebox.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 Thebox.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 Thebox.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 The Box. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: