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tomsguide.com

Tom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To

Page Load Speed

131.3 sec in total

First Response

454 ms

Resources Loaded

115.3 sec

Page Rendered

15.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tomsguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 454 ms and then it took 130.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 30 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

tomsguide.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

tomsguide.com

454 ms

www.tomsguide.com

1660 ms

tomsguide-us-site.irm.home.css

147 ms

es6-promise.auto.min.js

1943 ms

lock.min.js

2166 ms

Our browser made a total of 149 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Tomsguide.com, 10% (15 requests) were made to Img.purch.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to Ads.servebom.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (22.8 sec) relates to the external source Sync.aralego.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.6 MB (60%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Tomsguide.com main page is 6.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 529.9 kB

  • Original 662.2 kB
  • After minification 628.4 kB
  • After compression 132.3 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 529.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 33.1 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. Tom S Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 2.4 MB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 2.4 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 601.1 kB

  • Original 733.5 kB
  • After minification 686.2 kB
  • After compression 132.4 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. Tomsguide.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 601.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (73%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tom S Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

tomsguide.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 Tomsguide.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 Tomsguide.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 Tom S Guide. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: