Report Summary

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

285 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sportinmalta.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sportinmalta.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.sportinmalta.com

1678 ms

style.css

99 ms

jquery-1.3.1.min.js

277 ms

jquery-custom.js

186 ms

tabs.js

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Sportinmalta.com, 6% (8 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to C.betrad.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Sportinmalta.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 508.9 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

540.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Sportinmalta.com main page is 1.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 551.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 79.1 kB

  • Original 92.9 kB
  • After minification 71.4 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 21.5 kB, which is 23% 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 79.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 372.4 kB
  • After minification 349.6 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. Sportinmalta images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 382.0 kB

  • Original 551.1 kB
  • After minification 491.1 kB
  • After compression 169.1 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 382.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 33.4 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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. Sportinmalta.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (66%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sportinmalta. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sportinmalta.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sportinmalta.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Sportinmalta.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 Sportinmalta. 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: