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bricksabillion.com

BricksABillion | A Catablog of Tools, Tips, and Techniques for building with LEGO®

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

245 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

820 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bricksabillion.com page load time and found that the first response time was 245 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bricksabillion.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bricksabillion.com

245 ms

style.css

202 ms

default.js

205 ms

styles.css

218 ms

jquery.js

357 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Bricksabillion.com, 29% (18 requests) were made to Farm6.static.flickr.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (574 ms) belongs to the original domain Bricksabillion.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 47.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Bricksabillion.com main page is 1.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 716.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 30.2 kB

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 40.6 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 30.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 716.5 kB
  • After minification 713.1 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. BricksA Billion images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 268.8 kB
  • After minification 268.8 kB
  • After compression 255.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 909 B

  • Original 65.0 kB
  • After minification 65.0 kB
  • After compression 64.1 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. Bricksabillion.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (20%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BricksA Billion. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

bricksabillion.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 Bricksabillion.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 Bricksabillion.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 BricksA Billion. 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: