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bookstart.org.uk

Bookstart | BookTrust

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

260 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

391 ms

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About Website

Visit bookstart.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Bookstart content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bookstart.org.uk

Find out about Bookstart, the BookTrust programme that gives free books to every child in England and Wales at two key stages before school, plus free packs for children with additional needs, tips an...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bookstart.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 260 ms and then it took 3.9 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

bookstart.org.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bookstart.org.uk

260 ms

www.bookstart.org.uk

672 ms

archimedes-frontend-core.css

87 ms

archimedes-frontend-modules.css

174 ms

jquery.archimedes-frontend-core-plugins-0.1.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Bookstart.org.uk, 12% (15 requests) were made to Fileserver.booktrust.org.uk and 5% (6 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Fileserver.booktrust.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (51%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bookstart.org.uk main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 116.5 kB

  • Original 137.8 kB
  • After minification 82.3 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 55.5 kB, which is 40% 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 116.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 66.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Bookstart images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 823.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 823.7 kB
  • After compression 269.5 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 823.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 577.5 kB

  • Original 644.9 kB
  • After minification 379.7 kB
  • After compression 67.5 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. Bookstart.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 577.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (53%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

55

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bookstart. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bookstart.org.uk

bookstart.org.uk

260 ms

www.bookstart.org.uk

www.bookstart.org.uk

672 ms

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SEO Factors

bookstart.org.uk SEO score

0

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 Bookstart.org.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 Bookstart.org.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

bookstart.org.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bookstart. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: