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m.thelocal.es

The Local - Spain's News in English

Page Load Speed

17.5 sec in total

First Response

3.6 sec

Resources Loaded

12.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.thelocal.es page load time and found that the first response time was 3.6 sec and then it took 13.9 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

m.thelocal.es performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

m.thelocal.es

3609 ms

www.thelocal.es

1154 ms

css

43 ms

screen.css

167 ms

responsive.css

599 ms

Our browser made a total of 377 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original M.thelocal.es, 23% (88 requests) were made to Thelocal.es and 6% (22 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) belongs to the original domain M.thelocal.es.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (37%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of M.thelocal.es main page is 4.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 496.9 kB

  • Original 598.4 kB
  • After minification 575.5 kB
  • After compression 101.5 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 496.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 352.3 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB

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, M The Local needs image optimization as it can save up to 352.3 kB or 13% 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 627.0 kB

  • Original 944.4 kB
  • After minification 938.5 kB
  • After compression 317.4 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 627.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 81.8 kB

  • Original 100.9 kB
  • After minification 79.4 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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. M.thelocal.es needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 81.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 193 (55%)

Requests Now

348

After Optimization

155

The browser has sent 348 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M The Local. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 72 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

m.thelocal.es SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise M.thelocal.es 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 M.thelocal.es 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 M The Local. 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: