Report Summary

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    Best Practices

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imdb.com

IMDb: Ratings, Reviews, and Where to Watch the Best Movies & TV Shows

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Imdb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

imdb.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

imdb.com

22 ms

imdb.com

33 ms

www.imdb.com

631 ms

3544d95d288f6104.css

40 ms

c5116be996500601.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Imdb.com, 57% (39 requests) were made to M.media-amazon.com and 32% (22 requests) were made to Dqpnq362acqdi.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (631 ms) belongs to the original domain Imdb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 741.6 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

828.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Imdb.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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 933.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 741.5 kB

  • Original 933.4 kB
  • After minification 933.2 kB
  • After compression 191.9 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 741.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 589.8 kB
  • After minification 589.8 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. IMDb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 86 B

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 12.3 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 52 B

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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. Imdb.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (32%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IMDb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

imdb.com SEO score

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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 Imdb.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 Imdb.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of IMDb. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: