Access citiesdirect.co.uk. Short city breaks across Europe and beyond, from Cities Direct

citiesdirect.co.uk

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www.citiesdirect.co.uk

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jquery.js

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jquery.cookie.js

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jquery.cookiecuttr.js

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Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Citiesdirect.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Citiesdirect.co.uk.

Content Size

665.0 kB

After Optimization

367.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Citiesdirect.co.uk main page is 665.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 300.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 55.7 kB

Original 68.0 kB
After minification 54.0 kB
After compression 12.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.1 kB, which is 21% 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 55.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

Original 300.5 kB
After minification 278.3 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. Cities Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 123.0 kB

Original 186.9 kB
After minification 163.3 kB
After compression 63.9 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 123.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 96.3 kB

Original 109.6 kB
After minification 86.8 kB
After compression 13.2 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. Citiesdirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 96.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cities Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.