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thehindu.com

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Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

808 ms

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehindu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 808 ms and then it took 10.6 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

thehindu.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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808 ms

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Our browser made a total of 197 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Thehindu.com, 9% (17 requests) were made to Z1.zedo.com and 5% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Optimize.innity.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (29%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thehindu.com main page is 4.9 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. 75% 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 218.4 kB

  • Original 269.7 kB
  • After minification 264.8 kB
  • After compression 51.4 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 218.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 227.1 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. The Hindu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 768.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 377.4 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 768.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 190.1 kB

  • Original 235.3 kB
  • After minification 219.2 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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. Thehindu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 190.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (49%)

Requests Now

185

After Optimization

94

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 185 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hindu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 66 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

thehindu.com 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 Thehindu.com 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 Thehindu.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Hindu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: