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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

downloads.virginmedia.com

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Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

397 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

3.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Downloads.virginmedia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 397 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

downloads.virginmedia.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,160 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.564

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

downloads.virginmedia.com

397 ms

www.virginmedia.com

465 ms

geo4.js

63 ms

dynatrace-script-prod.js

334 ms

initGTM.js

317 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Downloads.virginmedia.com, 43% (18 requests) were made to Prod.ctassets.virginmedia.com and 40% (17 requests) were made to Virginmedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (777 ms) relates to the external source Dtagate.virginmedia.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 616.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Downloads.virginmedia.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 431.4 kB

  • Original 485.0 kB
  • After minification 479.3 kB
  • After compression 53.6 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 431.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 58.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Downloads Virgin Media images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 122.8 kB

  • Original 775.9 kB
  • After minification 775.9 kB
  • After compression 653.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 122.8 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. Downloads.virginmedia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (30%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Downloads Virgin Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

downloads.virginmedia.com

downloads.virginmedia.com

397 ms

www.virginmedia.com

www.virginmedia.com

465 ms

geo4.js

geo4.js

63 ms

dynatrace-script-prod.js

dynatrace-script-prod.js

334 ms

initGTM.js

initGTM.js

317 ms

skrollr.js

skrollr.js

324 ms

22886250866.js

22886250866.js

48 ms

lux.js

lux.js

29 ms

styles.c60fcb939bdc3359.css

styles.c60fcb939bdc3359.css

132 ms

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runtime.2458dac5f01950d4.js

89 ms

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polyfills.4a0b9113c8abd2fb.js

393 ms

scripts.f39b1d443d8b388d.js

scripts.f39b1d443d8b388d.js

174 ms

main.9f54d83090c2db18.js

main.9f54d83090c2db18.js

552 ms

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ruxitagent_A27Vfgjqrux_10241220422021336.js

777 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

225 ms

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180 ms

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157 ms

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155 ms

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155 ms

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154 ms

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157 ms

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155 ms

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156 ms

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157 ms

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157 ms

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158 ms

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157 ms

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158 ms

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159 ms

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161 ms

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159 ms

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160 ms

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160 ms

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165 ms

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165 ms

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pinkRedTwo.svg

387 ms

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163 ms

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BulletWhite.svg

376 ms

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94 ms

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537 ms

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537 ms

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511 ms

Accessibility Review

downloads.virginmedia.com accessibility score

97

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

downloads.virginmedia.com 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

downloads.virginmedia.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Downloads.virginmedia.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 Downloads.virginmedia.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

downloads.virginmedia.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Downloads Virgin Media. 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: