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cathedral.school

Independent School in Somerset | Day & Boarding | Wells Cathedral School

Page Load Speed

12 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

9.7 sec

Page Rendered

806 ms

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About Website

Welcome to cathedral.school homepage info - get ready to check Cathedral best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about cathedral.school

We are an independent school in Somerset with private day and boarding schools for 2-18 year olds. We provide all-around education & world-class specialist music studies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cathedral.school page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 10.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cathedral.school performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

wells.cathedral.school

1440 ms

js

239 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

256 ms

select2.min.css

253 ms

iconfonts.css

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Cathedral.school, 5% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.5 sec) relates to the external source Wells.cathedral.school.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 392.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Cathedral.school main page is 6.2 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 144.8 kB

  • Original 173.3 kB
  • After minification 173.2 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 144.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 216.9 kB

  • Original 5.6 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Cathedral images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 174.0 kB
  • After minification 174.0 kB
  • After compression 149.8 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 24.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 195.4 kB
  • After minification 193.3 kB
  • After compression 189.1 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. Cathedral.school has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 82 (66%)

Requests Now

125

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 125 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cathedral. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 35 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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