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ballroomcentral.co.uk

Ballroom and Latin Shoes | Dancewear Central

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

271 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

368 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ballroomcentral.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 271 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 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ballroomcentral.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

ballroomcentral.co.uk

271 ms

www.ballroomcentral.co.uk

261 ms

ballroom-latin-shoes-c55

1127 ms

site_font,layout,site_layout,hotspots,media_promo,colorbox,overridefr,overridede,autocomplete,autocomplete_detailed,site_autocomplete,card_logos,category,site_category,jquery-ui-slider

482 ms

jquery,common,jquery-cookie,jquery-bgiframe,bookmark,jquery-hotspots,jquery-hotspots-settings,jquery-hoverintent,jquery-slider,vs_slider,jplayer,jquery-scrollto,filters,jquery-history,colorbox,jquery-ui-slider,jquery-lightbox,autocomplete_delayed,jquery-carousel

893 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ballroomcentral.co.uk, 41% (31 requests) were made to Dancewearcentral.co.uk and 19% (14 requests) were made to Files.dancewearcentral.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Dancewearcentral.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (58%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

780.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Ballroomcentral.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 148.3 kB

  • Original 167.9 kB
  • After minification 127.3 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 40.6 kB, which is 24% 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 148.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 91.4 kB

  • Original 477.7 kB
  • After minification 386.3 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, Ballroom Central needs image optimization as it can save up to 91.4 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 755.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 356.5 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 755.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 86.1 kB

  • Original 104.5 kB
  • After minification 104.2 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. Ballroomcentral.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 86.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (48%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ballroom Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ballroomcentral.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 Ballroomcentral.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 Ballroomcentral.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 Ballroom Central. 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: