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moneysavingexpert.com

Money Saving Expert: Credit Cards, Shopping, Bank Charges, Cheap Flights and more

Page Load Speed

54.5 sec in total

First Response

302 ms

Resources Loaded

33.7 sec

Page Rendered

20.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Moneysavingexpert.com page load time and found that the first response time was 302 ms and then it took 54.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

moneysavingexpert.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

moneysavingexpert.com

302 ms

www.moneysavingexpert.com

1026 ms

gtm.js

1315 ms

css

1277 ms

homepage_main.1504001285.css

3036 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Moneysavingexpert.com, 63% (50 requests) were made to Images6.moneysavingexpert.com and 10% (8 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.5 sec) relates to the external source Secure.moneysavingexpert.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (30%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Moneysavingexpert.com main page is 3.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 167.9 kB

  • Original 210.7 kB
  • After minification 188.6 kB
  • After compression 42.8 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 167.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 181.3 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Money Saving Expert images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 419.3 kB

  • Original 691.6 kB
  • After minification 628.7 kB
  • After compression 272.3 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 419.3 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 374.4 kB

  • Original 445.1 kB
  • After minification 433.8 kB
  • After compression 70.7 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. Moneysavingexpert.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 374.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (36%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Money Saving Expert. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts 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 Moneysavingexpert.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 Moneysavingexpert.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 data is detected on the main page of Money Saving Expert. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: