Report Summary

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timesonline.co.uk

The Times & The Sunday Times: breaking news & today's latest headlines

Page Load Speed

37.4 sec in total

First Response

308 ms

Resources Loaded

21.1 sec

Page Rendered

16 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Timesonline.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 308 ms and then it took 37.1 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

timesonline.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

timesonline.co.uk

308 ms

www.newsint.co.uk

382 ms

www.news.co.uk

296 ms

www.news.co.uk

3304 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

534 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Timesonline.co.uk, 72% (38 requests) were made to News.co.uk and 15% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.4 sec) relates to the external source Newssyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (17%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Timesonline.co.uk main page is 6.6 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 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 47.4 kB

  • Original 58.0 kB
  • After minification 54.6 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 47.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 235.5 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Times Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 261.7 kB

  • Original 418.2 kB
  • After minification 417.1 kB
  • After compression 156.5 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 261.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 599.9 kB

  • Original 736.1 kB
  • After minification 676.4 kB
  • After compression 136.1 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. Timesonline.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 599.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (29%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Times Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

timesonline.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 Timesonline.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 Timesonline.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 Times Online. 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: