digitalspy.com website review

About 613 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.6 s faster on a phone.

5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (163 KiB).

Your mobile performance score is 38 (desktop: 57). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 685 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google/Doubleclick Ads, Optanon and Amazon Ads and others), adding 1.2 MB and 436 ms of main-thread time.

About 53 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 350 ms.

A phone's processor spends 3.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Optanon costs a phone 106 ms of main-thread work and 353 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

hearstapps.com costs a phone 34 ms of main-thread work and 478 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Polyfills for old browsers add 33 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

13 images could be 150 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Your largest element takes 14.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “dame judi dench”.

The first text or image appears after 6.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 15.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 843 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

18 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 127 ms to 141 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.6 MB in 151 requests on a phone: scripts 1.6 MB (100), other files 410 KiB (16) and images 385 KiB (29). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image further down the page (29 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.75 g of CO₂e: 90.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

Your <h1> is empty.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

The homepage links to 124 pages on digitalspy.com and 18 external pages.

Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot) and ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

/contenttype/news and /news all use the title “Entertainment News from Digital Spy”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

/contenttype/news and /news use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /contenttype/news, whose canonical is /news. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

/soaps and /videos have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 104 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 links go through two or more redirects, for example http://www.hearst.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

digitalspy.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

digitalspy.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 1,030 words of visible text.

The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

digitalspy.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

digitalspy.com has no SPF record, so mail servers can't tell which servers may send email as you. Your mail lands in spam more often, and anyone can send mail pretending to be you.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads and Google Ads (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 8 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.