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travel.virginmoney.com

Travel Insurance with Covid Cover | Insurance | Virgin Money UK

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

3.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

130 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Travel.virginmoney.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.2 sec and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

travel.virginmoney.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

travel.virginmoney.com

3168 ms

default.aspx

549 ms

jquery.ui.datepicker.css

83 ms

jquery-1.10.1.js

244 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

566 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Travel.virginmoney.com, 6% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Statse.webtrendslive.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Travel.virginmoney.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (76%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

309.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Travel.virginmoney.com main page is 1.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 663.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 36.1 kB
  • After minification 33.4 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 23.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 398.5 kB

  • Original 494.0 kB
  • After minification 95.5 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. Obviously, Travel Virgin Money needs image optimization as it can save up to 398.5 kB or 81% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 480.7 kB

  • Original 663.5 kB
  • After minification 587.7 kB
  • After compression 182.8 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 480.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 104.3 kB

  • Original 122.9 kB
  • After minification 98.5 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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. Travel.virginmoney.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (45%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Travel Virgin Money. 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 4 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Travel.virginmoney.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Travel.virginmoney.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Travel Virgin Money. 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: