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comparenow.com

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Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

286 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comparenow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Comparenow.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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193 ms

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374 ms

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125 ms

modernizr2.8.1.custom.min.js

130 ms

jquery.min.js

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Comparenow.com, 24% (12 requests) were made to Az630774.vo.msecnd.net and 12% (6 requests) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (629 ms) relates to the external source Az630774.vo.msecnd.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

318.9 kB

After Optimization

249.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Comparenow.com main page is 318.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 210.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.2 kB, which is 15% 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 15.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 210.5 kB
  • After minification 203.5 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. Compare Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 52.2 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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 18.2 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 28.4 kB

  • Original 35.2 kB
  • After minification 35.2 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. Comparenow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (58%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Compare Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

comparenow.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Comparenow.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 Comparenow.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Compare Now. 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: