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news.royalmailgroup.com

Royal Mail | Royal Mail Group Ltd

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

304 ms

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About Website

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Royal Mail is the UK's most trusted letters and parcels delivery company. We provide a 6-days-a-week, one-price-goes anywhere postal service across the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.royalmailgroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.royalmailgroup.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

news.royalmailgroup.com

1584 ms

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268 ms

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190 ms

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277 ms

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462 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original News.royalmailgroup.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to C.webtrends.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain News.royalmailgroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 796.8 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

693.1 kB

In fact, the total size of News.royalmailgroup.com main page is 1.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 665.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 42.0 kB

  • Original 57.2 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 42.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 499.7 kB
  • After minification 463.2 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. News Royal Mail Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 498.9 kB

  • Original 665.5 kB
  • After minification 607.8 kB
  • After compression 166.6 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 498.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 219.5 kB

  • Original 267.6 kB
  • After minification 263.3 kB
  • After compression 48.1 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. News.royalmailgroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 219.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (56%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Royal Mail Group. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

news.royalmailgroup.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 News.royalmailgroup.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 News.royalmailgroup.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 News Royal Mail Group. 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: