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cyclelab.com

Buy Mountain Bikes | Road Bikes | Best Bicycle Shop Online | Cycle Lab

Page Load Speed

15.2 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

12.8 sec

Page Rendered

360 ms

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About Website

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Cycle Lab is a leading cycling store, with a wide range of affordable bicycles for sale; road bikes, mountain bikes, gravel bikes, e-bikes, kids bikes, accessories, components, and clothing available ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cyclelab.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 13.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cyclelab.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cyclelab.com

2068 ms

standalone.67db8b8b04746ce52742c195e1ecc1c01454669604.css

1511 ms

jquery.min.js

1743 ms

core.js

2177 ms

ajax.js

1231 ms

Our browser made a total of 201 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (137 requests) were addressed to the original Cyclelab.com, 13% (26 requests) were made to Media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com and 12% (25 requests) were made to Media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Cyclelab.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (26%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Cyclelab.com main page is 7.1 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. 75% 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 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 195.5 kB

  • Original 224.9 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 55.9 kB, which is 25% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 195.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 700.8 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.0 MB

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. Obviously, Cycle Lab needs image optimization as it can save up to 700.8 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 638.2 kB

  • Original 863.5 kB
  • After minification 731.0 kB
  • After compression 225.2 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 638.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 323.3 kB

  • Original 374.2 kB
  • After minification 302.3 kB
  • After compression 50.9 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. Cyclelab.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (9%)

Requests Now

199

After Optimization

181

The browser has sent 199 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cycle Lab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Cyclelab.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 Cyclelab.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 Cycle Lab. 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: