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competitions.channel5.com

Channel 5 Competitions (powered by TopFox)

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

882 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

140 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Competitions.channel5.com page load time and found that the first response time was 882 ms and then it took 2.1 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 Competitions.channel5.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

competitions.channel5.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

competitions.channel5.com

882 ms

common.css

230 ms

menu_left.css

166 ms

fish4transition.css

168 ms

prize.css

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Competitions.channel5.com, 33% (32 requests) were made to D2gnblp1jps891.cloudfront.net and 24% (23 requests) were made to Wwwcdn.channel5.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (882 ms) belongs to the original domain Competitions.channel5.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 491.0 kB (56%)

Content Size

869.8 kB

After Optimization

378.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Competitions.channel5.com main page is 869.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 518.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 84.3 kB

  • Original 116.0 kB
  • After minification 110.9 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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 84.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 30.4 kB

  • Original 190.9 kB
  • After minification 160.5 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, Competitions Channel 5 needs image optimization as it can save up to 30.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 340.1 kB

  • Original 518.4 kB
  • After minification 491.9 kB
  • After compression 178.3 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 340.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 35.0 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. Competitions.channel5.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (61%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Competitions Channel 5. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

competitions.channel5.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 Competitions.channel5.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 Competitions.channel5.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 Competitions Channel 5. 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: