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buildabear.mx

Build-A-Bear Workshop® | Shop All The Stuff You Love

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

157 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

287 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildabear.mx page load time and found that the first response time was 157 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildabear.mx performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

buildabear.mx

157 ms

buildabear.mx

948 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

265 ms

bootstrap.min.css

466 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

269 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Buildabear.mx, 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Buildabear.mx.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (47%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Buildabear.mx main page is 3.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 55.9 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 51.2 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 15.1 kB, which is 23% 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 55.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 44.1 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Build A Bear images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 548.9 kB

  • Original 785.9 kB
  • After minification 772.2 kB
  • After compression 237.0 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 548.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 969.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 980.6 kB
  • After compression 103.5 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. Buildabear.mx needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 969.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (28%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

71

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build A Bear. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Buildabear.mx 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 Buildabear.mx 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 Build A Bear. 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: