Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

399 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theindependent-news.com page load time and found that the first response time was 399 ms and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

theindependent-news.com

399 ms

super.css

1404 ms

theindependent-news.com

251 ms

people.css

1035 ms

ferrum.css

346 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Theindependent-news.com, 25% (24 requests) were made to R.olnl.net and 19% (18 requests) were made to Static.olnl.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Static.olnl.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (42%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Theindependent-news.com main page is 3.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 91.4 kB

  • Original 109.0 kB
  • After minification 86.0 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.0 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 91.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Theindependent News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 792.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 350.2 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 792.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 617.2 kB

  • Original 807.3 kB
  • After minification 785.9 kB
  • After compression 190.2 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. Theindependent-news.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 617.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (34%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theindependent News. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Theindependent-news.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 Theindependent-news.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 description is not detected on the main page of Theindependent News. 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: