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Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

143 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Join.thesundaytimes.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec 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

join.thesundaytimes.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

join.thesundaytimes.co.uk

1139 ms

utag.js

173 ms

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45 ms

K12BLqD1fQthAyNorcm2XxtfK8aeXD8TyPxHCEStQSV.js

59 ms

PQtVjg4fPkcQHUDiTxsyupoSl1E3m8iNo4lS4vn1Hzg.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Join.thesundaytimes.co.uk, 12% (12 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Join.thesundaytimes.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (68%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

562.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Join.thesundaytimes.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 114.9 kB
  • After minification 105.9 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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 86.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 461 B

  • Original 92.8 kB
  • After minification 92.3 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. Join The Sunday Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 426.2 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 1.0 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 89.0 kB
  • After minification 89.0 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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. Join.thesundaytimes.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (84%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Join The Sunday 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 71 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

join.thesundaytimes.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Join.thesundaytimes.co.uk 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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Join.thesundaytimes.co.uk 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 Join The Sunday 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: