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football.co.uk

Football News, Results, Fixtures & Live Scores - Football.co.uk

Page Load Speed

180.8 sec in total

First Response

467 ms

Resources Loaded

139 sec

Page Rendered

41.3 sec

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About Website

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Football.co.uk - Latest football news, live scores, results, fixtures, team news and transfers from the Premier League, Scottish Premiership, Champions League and top European leagues

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Key Findings

We analyzed Football.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 467 ms and then it took 180.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

football.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

football.co.uk

467 ms

www.football.co.uk

1173 ms

bootstrap.min.css

348 ms

style.20150325.css

639 ms

rrssb.20150325.css

545 ms

Our browser made a total of 401 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Football.co.uk, 10% (42 requests) were made to Pokerstars.com and 9% (38 requests) were made to Images.football.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20 sec) relates to the external source D.turn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.8 MB (43%)

Content Size

8.8 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Football.co.uk main page is 8.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 261.7 kB

  • Original 300.2 kB
  • After minification 278.2 kB
  • After compression 38.5 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 261.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 84.4 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Football images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 2.9 MB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.1 MB
  • After compression 1.4 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 2.9 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 560.9 kB

  • Original 656.8 kB
  • After minification 615.9 kB
  • After compression 96.0 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. Football.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 560.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 218 (63%)

Requests Now

344

After Optimization

126

The browser has sent 344 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Football. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 82 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Football.co.uk 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 Football.co.uk 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 Football. 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: