Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

810 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brickandsand.com page load time and found that the first response time was 810 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brickandsand.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

brickandsand.com

810 ms

style.css

847 ms

prettyPhoto.css

799 ms

jquery.js

1305 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

545 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Brickandsand.com, 4% (1 request) were made to Maps.google.com and 4% (1 request) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Brickandsand.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.9 kB (39%)

Content Size

547.4 kB

After Optimization

332.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Brickandsand.com main page is 547.4 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 258.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 15.8 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 2.8 kB, which is 15% 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 14.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 258.3 kB
  • After minification 253.3 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. Brickandsand images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 142.8 kB

  • Original 208.8 kB
  • After minification 198.0 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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 142.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 52.2 kB

  • Original 61.7 kB
  • After minification 51.7 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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. Brickandsand.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (80%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brickandsand. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Brickandsand.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 Brickandsand.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

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