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tab.co.uk

The Tab - Stories you care about

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

262 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

364 ms

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About Website

Visit tab.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Tab content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about tab.co.uk

The Tab is an online news network which publishes original stories by young journalists. We build teams at top universities in the US and UK, and project their stories to a global audience.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tab.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 262 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tab.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thetab.com

262 ms

fillet-css.css

165 ms

bootstrap.min.css

230 ms

main.min.css

157 ms

css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Tab.co.uk, 12% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (6 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (309 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 426.2 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

763.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Tab.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. Images take 594.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 56.2 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 44.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 594.0 kB
  • After minification 585.9 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. Tab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 205.9 kB

  • Original 336.4 kB
  • After minification 335.2 kB
  • After compression 130.5 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 205.9 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 167.6 kB

  • Original 202.6 kB
  • After minification 201.3 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. Tab.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 167.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (50%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

tab.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Tab.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Tab.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 data is detected on the main page of Tab. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: