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images.radiotimes.com

Radio Times | TV, film and entertainment news - Radio Times

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to images.radiotimes.com homepage info - get ready to check Images Radio Times best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about images.radiotimes.com

Your UK TV and radio guide to what's on TV and on demand plus all the latest entertainment, soap, film and drama news and reviews from Radio Times.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Images.radiotimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

images.radiotimes.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

images.radiotimes.com

162 ms

www.radiotimes.com

283 ms

6971960938.js

135 ms

htw-immediatemedia.js

18 ms

app-a2e1cdd9b6f02febcf09c689e17ce57d.css

562 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Images.radiotimes.com, 17% (19 requests) were made to Media.immediate.co.uk and 15% (17 requests) were made to Radiotimes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (647 ms) relates to the external source Radiotimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 858.8 kB (28%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Images.radiotimes.com main page is 3.1 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. 80% 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 108.0 kB

  • Original 133.9 kB
  • After minification 114.7 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 19.2 kB, which is 14% 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 108.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Images Radio Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 432.1 kB

  • Original 746.2 kB
  • After minification 746.2 kB
  • After compression 314.1 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 432.1 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 285.0 kB

  • Original 387.7 kB
  • After minification 386.6 kB
  • After compression 102.7 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. Images.radiotimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 285.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (57%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Images Radio Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

images.radiotimes.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 Images.radiotimes.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 Images.radiotimes.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 Images Radio Times. 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: