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businesssearch.co.uk

Direct Marketing Services - Thomson Business Search

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

294 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

315 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Businesssearch.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 294 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

businesssearch.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

businesssearch.co.uk

294 ms

businesssearch.thomsonlocal.com

388 ms

base.css

182 ms

forms.css

206 ms

skin.css

458 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Businesssearch.co.uk, 94% (51 requests) were made to Businesssearch.thomsonlocal.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (713 ms) relates to the external source Businesssearch.thomsonlocal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 483.7 kB (53%)

Content Size

918.4 kB

After Optimization

434.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Businesssearch.co.uk main page is 918.4 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. Javascripts take 421.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 21.6 kB
  • After minification 14.9 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 6.7 kB, which is 31% 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 17.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 300.8 kB
  • After minification 287.9 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. Business Search images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 305.4 kB

  • Original 421.8 kB
  • After minification 375.9 kB
  • After compression 116.4 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 305.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 148.2 kB

  • Original 174.3 kB
  • After minification 129.1 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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. Businesssearch.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 148.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (65%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Business Search. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

businesssearch.co.uk

businesssearch.co.uk

294 ms

businesssearch.thomsonlocal.com

businesssearch.thomsonlocal.com

388 ms

base.css

base.css

182 ms

forms.css

forms.css

206 ms

skin.css

skin.css

458 ms

dev.css

dev.css

222 ms

email.css

email.css

232 ms

admin.css

admin.css

181 ms

jquery-1.5.1.min.js

jquery-1.5.1.min.js

504 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.css

465 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.min.js

635 ms

jquery.jeditable.mini.js

jquery.jeditable.mini.js

311 ms

googletracking.js

googletracking.js

333 ms

jquery.qtip-1.0.0-rc3-dm-min.js

jquery.qtip-1.0.0-rc3-dm-min.js

570 ms

jquery.numberformatter-1.1.0.js

jquery.numberformatter-1.1.0.js

425 ms

jquery.watermark.min.js

jquery.watermark.min.js

517 ms

Thomson.SearchResults.js

Thomson.SearchResults.js

549 ms

jquery.bar.js

jquery.bar.js

552 ms

qtips.js

qtips.js

583 ms

jquery.uniform.js

jquery.uniform.js

713 ms

uniform.default.css

uniform.default.css

651 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

580 ms

ga.js

ga.js

22 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

22 ms

bg-body.jpg

bg-body.jpg

111 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

85 ms

bg-logo.png

bg-logo.png

211 ms

telephone.gif

telephone.gif

137 ms

bg-np-left.gif

bg-np-left.gif

95 ms

bg-np-right.gif

bg-np-right.gif

113 ms

hero_background.jpg

hero_background.jpg

330 ms

bg-green.jpg

bg-green.jpg

190 ms

subscriber-cta-bg.jpg

subscriber-cta-bg.jpg

200 ms

subscriber-discount.png

subscriber-discount.png

281 ms

icon-sub-volume.png

icon-sub-volume.png

232 ms

icon-sub-advanced.png

icon-sub-advanced.png

275 ms

icon-sub-dedupe.png

icon-sub-dedupe.png

291 ms

icon-sub-manager.png

icon-sub-manager.png

300 ms

icon-sub-multiple.png

icon-sub-multiple.png

323 ms

home-benefits-screenshot.png

home-benefits-screenshot.png

377 ms

direct-mail-bg.png

direct-mail-bg.png

566 ms

tele-bg.png

tele-bg.png

479 ms

phone-lines.png

phone-lines.png

388 ms

bg-blue.jpg

bg-blue.jpg

412 ms

call_us.gif

call_us.gif

407 ms

email_us.gif

email_us.gif

463 ms

icon-license.png

icon-license.png

479 ms

icon-email.png

icon-email.png

487 ms

icon-connections.png

icon-connections.png

504 ms

awards-logo.jpg

awards-logo.jpg

550 ms

flag_uk.jpg

flag_uk.jpg

564 ms

flag_europe.jpg

flag_europe.jpg

568 ms

legacy-handheld.css

legacy-handheld.css

89 ms

print.css

print.css

88 ms

SEO Factors

businesssearch.co.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 Businesssearch.co.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 Businesssearch.co.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

businesssearch.co.uk

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