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ptcnetwork.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202647 issues · 93 checks
This review found 47 issues worth fixing on ptcnetwork.com, 17 of them high impact, across 93 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
70CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 107 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 107 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 115 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 106 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.6 s
1.1 s
1.7 s
2.3 s
2.9 s
3.4 s
4.0 s
4.6 s
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
3.4 s · 3.0 MB90 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (3.0 MB).
Render-blocking requests
4.2 s28 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.2 s.
Mobile performance score: 49
49/100Your mobile performance score is 49 (desktop: 70). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Improve image delivery
750 ms · 1.8 MB31 images could be 1.8 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused CSS
750 ms · 113 KiBAbout 113 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
600 ms · 157 KiBAbout 157 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.
3 third-party services on the page
3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Google Fonts), adding 418 KiB and 531 ms of main-thread time.
Google Tag Manager adds 445 ms
445 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 445 ms of main-thread work and 283 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.
Font display
400 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 400 ms).
9 long tasks on the main thread
9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 316 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Main-thread work: 2.6 s
A phone's processor spends 2.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Legacy JavaScript
12 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 12 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Chained critical requests
Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
Minify JavaScript
5 KiB5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Minify CSS
4 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
1 checks passed
Server response: 2 ms
2 msYour server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Largest Contentful Paint: 16.0 s
16.0 sYour largest element takes 16.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.
Time to Interactive: 17.5 s
17.5 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 17.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.3 s
8.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 3.5 s
3.5 sThe first text or image appears after 3.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user LCP: 3.3 s
3.3 sReal visitors wait 3.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user FCP: 2.6 s
2.6 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors wait 1.5 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Total Blocking Time: 469 ms
469 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 469 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
32 images without width and height
32 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 98 ms to 106 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+3%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.5 s to 3.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
3 checks passed
Real-user INP: 103 ms
103 msReal visitors wait 103 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.019
0.019The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.019, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.3 MB in 142 requests
4.3 MBYour homepage downloads 4.3 MB in 142 requests on a phone: images 2.7 MB (48), scripts 1.2 MB (47) and stylesheets 227 KiB (30). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image over 500 KB
5-Trending-Shows_gurbani.jpg weighs 952 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
10 images in older formats
10 images (2.0 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.
9 images below the first screen load straight away
9 images further down the page (1.9 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
1 image far larger than shown
121 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example 5-Trending-Shows_gurbani.jpg at 1,092 px wide, shown at 340 px. Resized copies would save about 121 KiB.
About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit
1.23 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.23 g of CO₂e: 147.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
Invalid ARIA attributes
1 element use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (1 element)
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values (1 element)
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name (1 element)
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
Frames without titles
1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
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.
22 links without text
22 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings should not be empty (12 elements)
Headings should not be empty: 12 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored (1 element)
Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 46 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
46 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 10 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
5 H1 headlines
There are 5 <h1> headlines (“PTC NETWORK”, “TRENDING SHOWS” and “PTC DIGITAL”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: missing name”.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
17 internal links, 37 external
The homepage links to 17 pages on ptcnetwork.com and 37 external pages.
5 checks passed
Meta description: 150 characters
Your meta description is 150 characters: “PTC Network, largest Punjabi tv network, PTC News, PTC Punjabi, PTC Chakde, Corporate website PTC, Official website PTC…”.
Title: 44 characters
Your title is a healthy 44 characters: “PTC Network- Official Website of PTC Network”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.ptcnetwork.com/.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.ptcnetwork.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.ptcnetwork.com/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.
3 checks passed
AI answer engines may read the site
Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.
Organization data: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (740 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
7 pages without a meta description
https://www.ptcnetwork.com/channel, https://www.ptcnetwork.com/ptc-play-app, https://www.ptcnetwork.com/other-verticals, https://www.ptcnetwork.com/events, https://www.ptcnetwork.com/exclusive-shows and https://www.ptcnetwork.com/send-query and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
10 pages without an H1
https://www.ptcnetwork.com/ptc-play-app, https://www.ptcnetwork.com/other-verticals, https://www.ptcnetwork.com/all-events, https://www.ptcnetwork.com/events, https://www.ptcnetwork.com/exclusive-shows and https://www.ptcnetwork.com/send-query and 4 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
4 pages with very little text
https://www.ptcnetwork.com/all-events, https://www.ptcnetwork.com/send-query, https://www.ptcnetwork.com/career and https://www.ptcnetwork.com/press-release have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
13 internal pages checked
We fetched 13 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 13 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
7 low-resolution images
7 images are served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Mixed content”).
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
26 of 28 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
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 social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a map but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
No risk reducer
No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.
About 726 words of copy
The homepage carries about 726 words of visible text.
2 checks passed
1 call to action
The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Contact Us”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.
4 cookies set on arrival
4Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
No consent tool detected
No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.
8 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 8 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at ptcnetwork.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
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