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comics.tampabay.com

Comics & Games | tampabay.com - Tampa Bay Times Times and tbt*

Page Load Speed

14.3 sec in total

First Response

719 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comics.tampabay.com page load time and found that the first response time was 719 ms and then it took 13.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

comics.tampabay.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

comics.tampabay.com

719 ms

ap_offbeat.js

35 ms

modules.css

454 ms

headnavs.css

225 ms

contentslider.css

456 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Comics.tampabay.com, 37% (21 requests) were made to Tampabay.com and 23% (13 requests) were made to Miniclip.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source E.miniclip.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 122.6 kB (49%)

Content Size

250.7 kB

After Optimization

128.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Comics.tampabay.com main page is 250.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 97.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 46.7 kB
  • After minification 37.0 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 9.8 kB, which is 21% 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 38.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 97.5 kB
  • After minification 95.8 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. Comics Tampa Bay images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 43.3 kB
  • After minification 36.9 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 29.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 63.1 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. Comics.tampabay.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (17%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Comics Tampa Bay. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

comics.tampabay.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Comics.tampabay.com 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 Comics.tampabay.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 description is not detected on the main page of Comics Tampa Bay. 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: