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glasgow2014.virginmedia.com

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

701 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

226 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glasgow2014.virginmedia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 701 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glasgow2014.virginmedia.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

glasgow2014.virginmedia.com

701 ms

346 ms

font-awesome.min.css

20 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

52 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Glasgow2014.virginmedia.com, 52% (34 requests) were made to Store.virginmedia.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (795 ms) relates to the external source Store.virginmedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 790.8 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

529.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Glasgow2014.virginmedia.com main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 515.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 56.3 kB
  • After minification 48.9 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 7.4 kB, which is 13% 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 48.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 342.7 kB
  • After minification 326.7 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. Glasgow 2014 Virgin Media images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 383.9 kB

  • Original 515.4 kB
  • After minification 401.2 kB
  • After compression 131.5 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 383.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 342.7 kB

  • Original 405.7 kB
  • After minification 332.6 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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. Glasgow2014.virginmedia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 342.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (83%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glasgow 2014 Virgin Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

glasgow2014.virginmedia.com 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 Glasgow2014.virginmedia.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 Glasgow2014.virginmedia.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 Glasgow 2014 Virgin Media. 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: