Report Summary

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thinkbroadband.com

thinkbroadband :: The UK's largest independent Broadband / ADSL troubleshooting website (incorporating news, reviews and comparisons)

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

832 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thinkbroadband.com page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thinkbroadband.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thinkbroadband.com

346 ms

www.thinkbroadband.com

887 ms

google_service.js

17 ms

292067074.js

128 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

409 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Thinkbroadband.com, 11% (14 requests) were made to Ce.lijit.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (887 ms) belongs to the original domain Thinkbroadband.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 494.7 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Thinkbroadband.com main page is 1.8 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 55.2 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 75.4 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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 55.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Think Broadband images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 381.0 kB

  • Original 628.4 kB
  • After minification 626.5 kB
  • After compression 247.4 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 381.0 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. Thinkbroadband.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (69%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Think Broadband. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thinkbroadband.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thinkbroadband.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Thinkbroadband.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 Think Broadband. 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: