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designunderstood.com

Forge Agency | Rotherham design agency, branding, graphic design, web design

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

593 ms

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About Website

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Forge Agency is a creative design agency situated in Rotherham, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, specialising in branding, graphic & web design, web development.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Designunderstood.com page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

designunderstood.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

designunderstood.com

244 ms

www.designunderstood.co.uk

379 ms

forgeagency.co.uk

1053 ms

jquery.mousewheel.js

167 ms

jquery-1.11.3.js

671 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Designunderstood.com, 81% (54 requests) were made to Forgeagency.co.uk and 6% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Forgeagency.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 594.6 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

971.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Designunderstood.com main page is 1.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 887.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 17.1 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 12.8 kB, which is 43% 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 25.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 887.8 kB
  • After minification 850.0 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. Design Understood images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 379.0 kB

  • Original 471.8 kB
  • After minification 294.8 kB
  • After compression 92.7 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 379.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 152.6 kB

  • Original 176.4 kB
  • After minification 137.1 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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. Designunderstood.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 152.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (34%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Design Understood. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS 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 Designunderstood.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 Designunderstood.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 Design Understood. 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: