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craftlinks.co.uk

Craft Links UK Crafts Search Engine

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

569 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Craftlinks.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 569 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

craftlinks.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

default.asp

569 ms

style.css

228 ms

addthis_widget.js

8 ms

ad7.asp

415 ms

lg-share-en.gif

139 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Craftlinks.co.uk, 9% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Procrafts.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) relates to the external source Procrafts.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 317.6 kB (59%)

Content Size

536.8 kB

After Optimization

219.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Craftlinks.co.uk main page is 536.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 395.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 64.6 kB

  • Original 85.5 kB
  • After minification 85.2 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 64.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 47.3 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. Craft Links images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 245.4 kB

  • Original 395.5 kB
  • After minification 395.5 kB
  • After compression 150.1 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 245.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 3.2 kB
  • After compression 803 B

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. Craftlinks.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (10%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Craft Links. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

default.asp

default.asp

569 ms

style.css

style.css

228 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

8 ms

ad7.asp

ad7.asp

415 ms

lg-share-en.gif

lg-share-en.gif

139 ms

mailus-craftlinks.gif

mailus-craftlinks.gif

743 ms

linkus-craftlinks.gif

linkus-craftlinks.gif

743 ms

cl-mini-logo.gif

cl-mini-logo.gif

105 ms

icon-twitter.jpg

icon-twitter.jpg

107 ms

icon-facebook.jpg

icon-facebook.jpg

209 ms

ad-125-sew.jpg

ad-125-sew.jpg

311 ms

ad-125-create.jpg

ad-125-create.jpg

311 ms

ad-125-coop.jpg

ad-125-coop.jpg

414 ms

ad-125-search.jpg

ad-125-search.jpg

419 ms

a-yourlogo.gif

a-yourlogo.gif

213 ms

ad-125-cc.jpg

ad-125-cc.jpg

311 ms

ad-125-targetcrafts.gif

ad-125-targetcrafts.gif

317 ms

tab-blue-on.gif

tab-blue-on.gif

414 ms

tab-blue.gif

tab-blue.gif

416 ms

tab-blue-small.gif

tab-blue-small.gif

416 ms

tour.gif

tour.gif

418 ms

craft.gif

craft.gif

519 ms

tab-blue-bottom.gif

tab-blue-bottom.gif

519 ms

tab-blue-top.gif

tab-blue-top.gif

517 ms

ga.js

ga.js

39 ms

boost

boost

15 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

37 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

31 ms

sh.07f0d9bf220d07a763adad1e.html

sh.07f0d9bf220d07a763adad1e.html

27 ms

datapair

datapair

39 ms

10 ms

www.splatcat.net

www.splatcat.net

303 ms

SEO Factors

craftlinks.co.uk SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Craftlinks.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Craftlinks.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

craftlinks.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Craft Links. 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: