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birminghamlights.com

Birmingham Lights: Sweet Home B'ham

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

237 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

180 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birminghamlights.com page load time and found that the first response time was 237 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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237 ms

birminghamlights.com

481 ms

font-awesome.min.css

65 ms

global.js

103 ms

script.js

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Birminghamlights.com, 23% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (481 ms) belongs to the original domain Birminghamlights.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 506.1 kB (59%)

Content Size

862.2 kB

After Optimization

356.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Birminghamlights.com main page is 862.2 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. CSS take 477.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 22.3 kB
  • After minification 19.9 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 2.4 kB, which is 11% 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 17.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 202 B

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 37.5 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. Birmingham Lights images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 66.4 kB

  • Original 325.0 kB
  • After minification 310.5 kB
  • After compression 258.6 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 66.4 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 422.4 kB

  • Original 477.2 kB
  • After minification 388.3 kB
  • After compression 54.8 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. Birminghamlights.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 422.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (71%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birmingham Lights. 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 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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237 ms

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481 ms

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font-awesome.min.css

65 ms

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global.js

103 ms

script.js

script.js

136 ms

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css

37 ms

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font-awesome.css

17 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

331 ms

main.css

main.css

337 ms

hover.css

hover.css

342 ms

styles.css

styles.css

183 ms

custom.css

custom.css

185 ms

jquery.lightbox.css

jquery.lightbox.css

184 ms

stylescroll.css

stylescroll.css

187 ms

animate.css

animate.css

289 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

287 ms

jquery.fancybox-buttons.css

jquery.fancybox-buttons.css

289 ms

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20 ms

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307 ms

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320 ms

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front.js

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27 ms

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101 ms

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SEO Factors

birminghamlights.com 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 Birminghamlights.com 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 Birminghamlights.com 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Birmingham Lights. 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: