Report Summary

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stanfords.co.uk

Maps, Atlases, Travel Guides, Travel Books and Globes | Stanfords

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

354 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stanfords.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stanfords.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

stanfords.co.uk

277 ms

www.stanfords.co.uk

823 ms

732a29a1-6414-4bb0-bfb5-2fb7776bfb98.css

130 ms

jquery-jvectormap-1.2.2.css

166 ms

styles.css

329 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Stanfords.co.uk, 16% (19 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Stanfords.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 782.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Stanfords.co.uk main page is 3.9 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 131.7 kB

  • Original 152.8 kB
  • After minification 113.3 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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 39.6 kB, which is 26% 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 131.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 394.6 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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, Stanfords needs image optimization as it can save up to 394.6 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

-65%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 111.4 kB
  • After minification 107.2 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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 72.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 183.9 kB

  • Original 214.7 kB
  • After minification 177.8 kB
  • After compression 30.8 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. Stanfords.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 183.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (28%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

83

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stanfords. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

stanfords.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stanfords.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 Stanfords.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 Stanfords. 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: