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castlehardware.com

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www.castlehardware.com

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castle.css

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colorbox.css

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css

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Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Castlehardware.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Castlehardware.com.

Content Size

715.8 kB

After Optimization

523.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Castlehardware.com main page is 715.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 510.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

Original 44.3 kB
After minification 33.9 kB
After compression 7.2 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 10.4 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 37.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 50.5 kB

Original 510.0 kB
After minification 459.6 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. Castle Hardware images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 77.1 kB

Original 127.8 kB
After minification 116.6 kB
After compression 50.7 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 77.1 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

Original 33.7 kB
After minification 27.9 kB
After compression 6.0 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. Castlehardware.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castle Hardware. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.