Report Summary

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imdb.org

IMDb - Movies, TV and Celebrities - IMDb

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

25 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

610 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Imdb.org page load time and found that the first response time was 25 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

imdb.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

imdb.org

25 ms

www.imdb.com

587 ms

ue-full-051542d0cfa6f645f8266601739de597._V1_.js

17 ms

pagelayout-flat-903233829._CB298432192_.css

95 ms

consumer-navbar-mega-3796876714._CB298540748_.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 173 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Imdb.org, 38% (66 requests) were made to Ia.media-imdb.com and 17% (29 requests) were made to Fls-na.amazon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (587 ms) relates to the external source Imdb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 859.5 kB (44%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Imdb.org main page is 2.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 831.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 144.7 kB

  • Original 176.7 kB
  • After minification 160.0 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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 144.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 769.8 kB
  • After minification 767.1 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. IMDb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 573.8 kB

  • Original 831.3 kB
  • After minification 831.2 kB
  • After compression 257.5 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 573.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 138.3 kB

  • Original 174.0 kB
  • After minification 172.6 kB
  • After compression 35.6 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. Imdb.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 138.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (54%)

Requests Now

169

After Optimization

78

The browser has sent 169 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IMDb. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

imdb.org 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 Imdb.org 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 Imdb.org 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 data is detected on the main page of IMDb. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: