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The table below shows the dynamic of the DNS Lookup speed changes for the website from various locations.

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Page Speed

Page Speed is a key factor in the website speed estimations (along with DNS lookup speed and website latency). Speed of the page loading, sophisticated subdomains usage for static content (images, css), optimized code (html, js), hosting on fast servers with good latency to its audience leads to good results and, ultimately, to a good website profitability.

While conducting tests we emulate a visit your website using the browser Firefox 3.5.6. Test results of the page loading listed in this table:

Ways to improve website performance

Once the document (website's main page) has been downloaded, we analyze it. It allows us to give webmasters some recommendations on how to optimize page load speed. We analyze the internal and external factors.

Enable GZIP Compression

This is a good practice to give the user content in compressed form. We've detected 121.9 Kb of content that could be compressed. By compressing content you can achieve the size of ~ 30.47 Kb (saving 91.42 Kb). This would accelerate the page loading speed and would positively impact the bandwidth savings in Home Box Office.

Keep Components under 25K

Users often visit web site using a mobile phone. Even the most modern and advanced gadgets have some limitations. For example an iPhone browser do not cache page components bigger than 25K. So you should strive to ensure that scripts, CSS-styles, etc. are less than 25K.

Avoid 301 & 302 Redirects

Redirect allows you to make website or page available under many URLs. Webmasters use redirects when their sites change domain name, several websites are merged into one, document is moved too a new location, etc. Using a redirect delays content obtaining. Any delay negatively affects on the user experience. We've detected that page has 3 redirects before page components start loading. The following list contains some of these redirects:
Try to reduce the number unnecessary redirects.

Alternate text for the images.

As you may already know, search engine that indexes your pages, do not have eyes. And all content you are trying to display on your site is just HTML & CSS code, images, Flash, etc for the robots. It is It's extremely important to describe each of the objects more datailed using ALT, TITLE and other tags.

Our robot has determined that the hbo.com page has 1 images, which has no tag ALT. Tag ALT is a text field, that specifies an alternate text for an image. But not only. Search engines consider this tag as a supplemental result for assessing the content of your page entirely. Do not ignore it!

For example your page has this code:

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<img src="/assets/images/global/unsupported-bg.jpg" height="100%" width="100%">

We recommend you use rich img code in that place:

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<img src="/assets/images/global/unsupported-bg.jpg" height="100%" width="100%" alt="cable">

P.S. We used keyword for this image that seemed to us most important for your page. But you can go ahead and give to each of 1 images an ALT text. This problem requires responsible approach. No need to put the same text at alt tag of the all images. Imagine that the pictures do not show and try to make sure that users understand what is shown on the picture based on the alt tag

Using H1 tag

Avoid frequent use of the <Н1> tag. Our robot has found 2 <Н1> tags in the document's body. We recommend you use one <Н1> tag per page only.

Content Semantics

We suggest you along with important and well-known tags like Title & H1 use also H2, H3, H4, H5, STRONG tags. Each page can (and should) highlight not only the main topic, but also complement the semantic core of the page and the whole site with the secondary keywords. For example, if the main topic of the page is dedicated servers, there is a probability that page has a blog about managed dedicated servers. If so try to highlight the title of the block by using tag <H2>, and an information that you provide this service in the United Kingdom highlight with H3 tag and so on. Thus try to highlight every important fragment of the information on your page with tags like STRONG, H2, H3, etc. We did not find H2 tags, H3 tags, H4 tags, H5 tags, STRONG tags on the page

Use the TITLE for A tag

As we have already mentioned, search engine bots can not see the site like a people do it. They more focused on the descriptions of certain page elements. That's why we strongly recommend use TITLE operator in the "A" tag. This operator not only describes the page referenced by the page more detailed, but also takes part in the page describing. For example, you have the link on your website:

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<a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer" onclick="trackLink('flash upgrade: required');" target="_blank">Get Latest</a>

We suggest you to remake it in this way:

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<a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer" onclick="trackLink('flash upgrade: required');" target="_blank" title="bulletin boards">Get Latest</a>

Of course, you can (and should) use more proper phrase instead of the "bulletin boards" that describes the link http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer.