Report Summary

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dixons.co.uk

Currys | TVs, Washing Machines, Cookers, Cameras, Laptops

Page Load Speed

38 sec in total

First Response

717 ms

Resources Loaded

26.3 sec

Page Rendered

11 sec

dixons.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Massive Range of TVs, Washing Machines, Cookers, Cameras, Laptops, Tablets & more. ✓ Free Home Delivery or ✓ Reserve Online & Collect In-Store

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dixons.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 717 ms and then it took 37.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dixons.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

index.html

717 ms

style.css

1700 ms

components.css

377 ms

platform.js

1699 ms

home.css

3374 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Dixons.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Currys.co.uk and 4% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.mark.reevoo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.1 sec) relates to the external source Cloud.typography.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (44%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Dixons.co.uk main page is 4.6 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. 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 103.5 kB

  • Original 119.4 kB
  • After minification 78.7 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 40.8 kB, which is 34% 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 103.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Dixons images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 984.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 453.7 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 984.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 914.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 363.7 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. Dixons.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 914.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (27%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dixons. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

dixons.co.uk 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 Dixons.co.uk 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 Dixons.co.uk 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 Dixons. 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: