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tehrantimes.com

Tehran Times

Page Load Speed

47.4 sec in total

First Response

836 ms

Resources Loaded

21.2 sec

Page Rendered

25.4 sec

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About Website

Visit tehrantimes.com now to see the best up-to-date Tehran Times content for Iran and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about tehrantimes.com

www.tehrantimes.com, Tehran times is the first English daily newspaper printed after 1979 Islamic revelution in iran.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tehrantimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 836 ms and then it took 46.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tehrantimes.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.tehrantimes.com

836 ms

style.css

693 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

1547 ms

jwplayer.js

526 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

417 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Tehrantimes.com, 56% (31 requests) were made to Media.mehrnews.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.2 sec) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 119.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Tehrantimes.com main page is 1.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

  • Original 72.3 kB
  • After minification 45.4 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 26.9 kB, which is 37% 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 62.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Tehran Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 60.6 kB
  • After minification 58.6 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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 37.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Tehrantimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (15%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tehran 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Tehrantimes.com 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 Tehrantimes.com 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 Tehran 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: