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sundaymercury.net

Sunday Mercury - Latest news updates, pictures, video, reaction - Birmingham Live

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

305 ms

Resources Loaded

816 ms

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sundaymercury.net page load time and found that the first response time was 305 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Sundaymercury.net rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

sundaymercury.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sundaymercury.net

305 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Sundaymercury.net and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (305 ms) belongs to the original domain Sundaymercury.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

965.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Sundaymercury.net main page is 2.3 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 46 B

  • Original 154 B
  • After minification 152 B
  • After compression 108 B

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 46 B or 30% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 61.0 kB

  • Original 518.2 kB
  • After minification 457.1 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. Obviously, Sunday Mercury needs image optimization as it can save up to 61.0 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 771.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 394.4 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 771.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 471.8 kB

  • Original 585.7 kB
  • After minification 584.2 kB
  • After compression 113.8 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. Sundaymercury.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 471.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

SEO Factors

sundaymercury.net SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sundaymercury.net 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 Sundaymercury.net main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 description is not detected on the main page of Sunday Mercury. 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: