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itlab.co.uk

IT Lab | Award-Winning IT Support in London & Manchester

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

285 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itlab.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itlab.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

itlab.co.uk

247 ms

www.itlab.com

623 ms

styles.css

152 ms

se-styles.css

156 ms

hubspot.css

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Itlab.co.uk, 67% (80 requests) were made to Itlab.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (895 ms) belongs to the original domain Itlab.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 488.3 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

735.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Itlab.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 749.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 57.1 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 43.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 193.8 kB

  • Original 749.7 kB
  • After minification 555.9 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. Obviously, IT Lab needs image optimization as it can save up to 193.8 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 167.9 kB

  • Original 319.9 kB
  • After minification 274.4 kB
  • After compression 152.0 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 167.9 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 82.7 kB

  • Original 97.1 kB
  • After minification 75.0 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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. Itlab.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 82.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (50%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IT 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 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

itlab.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 Itlab.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 Itlab.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 data is detected on the main page of IT Lab. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: