Report Summary

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thecricketblog.co.uk

The Cricket Blog - a blog covering all things cricket.

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

187 ms

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About Website

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Cricket discussion and opinion from across the cricket universe. The Ashes, the World Cup, England, India, Australia and beyond - if it interests us, it's here!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecricketblog.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecricketblog.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thecricketblog.co.uk

88 ms

www.thecricketblog.com

2325 ms

style.css

174 ms

load.js

139 ms

css-front.css

173 ms

Our browser made a total of 146 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thecricketblog.co.uk, 46% (67 requests) were made to Thecricketblog.com and 12% (18 requests) were made to Cdn.flashtalking.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Thecricketblog.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (45%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Thecricketblog.co.uk main page is 2.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 99.3 kB

  • Original 113.5 kB
  • After minification 99.9 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.6 kB, which is 12% 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 99.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 899.0 kB
  • After minification 853.9 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. The Cricket Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 964.2 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 644.6 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 964.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 121.9 kB

  • Original 143.5 kB
  • After minification 107.6 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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. Thecricketblog.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 121.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (56%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Cricket Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thecricketblog.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 Thecricketblog.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 Thecricketblog.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 The Cricket Blog. 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: