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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

latestnews.virginmedia.com

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Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

385 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Latestnews.virginmedia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 385 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

latestnews.virginmedia.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,140 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

latestnews.virginmedia.com

385 ms

www.virginmedia.com

439 ms

geo4.js

56 ms

dynatrace-script-prod.js

376 ms

initGTM.js

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Latestnews.virginmedia.com, 31% (14 requests) were made to Virginmedia.com and 29% (13 requests) were made to Prod.ctassets.virginmedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.optimizely.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 348.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Latestnews.virginmedia.com main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 736.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 311.7 kB

  • Original 349.8 kB
  • After minification 345.2 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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 311.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 27.9 kB

  • Original 456.3 kB
  • After minification 428.4 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. Latestnews Virgin Media images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 736.5 kB
  • After minification 736.5 kB
  • After compression 731.0 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

-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. Latestnews.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 18 (45%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Latestnews 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 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

latestnews.virginmedia.com

latestnews.virginmedia.com

385 ms

www.virginmedia.com

www.virginmedia.com

439 ms

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geo4.js

56 ms

dynatrace-script-prod.js

dynatrace-script-prod.js

376 ms

initGTM.js

initGTM.js

113 ms

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skrollr.js

122 ms

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3753 ms

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lux.js

34 ms

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361 ms

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412 ms

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114 ms

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189 ms

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515 ms

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828 ms

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169 ms

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338 ms

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328 ms

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423 ms

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430 ms

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127 ms

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253 ms

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otSDKStub.js

386 ms

landing

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363 ms

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187 ms

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260 ms

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122 ms

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121 ms

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location

30 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

28 ms

Accessibility Review

latestnews.virginmedia.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

latestnews.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

latestnews.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 Latestnews.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 Latestnews.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

latestnews.virginmedia.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Latestnews 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: