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thewatchforum.co.uk

UK Watch Forum

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

707 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

433 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewatchforum.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 707 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thewatchforum.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.thewatchforum.co.uk

707 ms

341e4a57816af3ba440d891ca87450ff_framework.css.56aa6028cc95e9548411ef2f79a04c44.css

660 ms

05e81b71abe4f22d6eb8d1a929494829_responsive.css.539ac3784570c16778c0b2e8f316c350.css

290 ms

90eb5adf50a8c640f633d47fd7eb1778_core.css.d3ccfad9cf2356bbd8f19224e873f009.css

211 ms

5a0da001ccc2200dc5625c3f3934497d_core_responsive.css.75fbdbea3e5784ccfa80f54f98a180d5.css

219 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Thewatchforum.co.uk, 9% (5 requests) were made to Rlthosting.co.uk and 7% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.viglink.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thewatchforum.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 669.9 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

693.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Thewatchforum.co.uk 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 483.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 119.3 kB

  • Original 136.6 kB
  • After minification 124.1 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 119.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 22.7 kB

  • Original 483.2 kB
  • After minification 460.5 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 Watch Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 298.7 kB

  • Original 465.4 kB
  • After minification 464.5 kB
  • After compression 166.7 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 298.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 229.2 kB

  • Original 278.6 kB
  • After minification 271.3 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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. Thewatchforum.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 229.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (40%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Watch Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thewatchforum.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 Thewatchforum.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 Thewatchforum.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 Watch Forum. 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: