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chadwyck.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chadwyck.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chadwyck.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

chadwyck.co.uk

111 ms

www.proquest.com

439 ms

bootstrap.css

90 ms

font-awesome.min.css

194 ms

css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Chadwyck.co.uk, 32% (12 requests) were made to Proquest.com and 30% (11 requests) were made to Media2.proquest.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (519 ms) relates to the external source Wt3.proquest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 294.4 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

961.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Chadwyck.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 856.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 11.3 kB, which is 21% 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 43.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 856.5 kB
  • After minification 821.3 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. Chadwyck images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 216.2 kB

  • Original 345.9 kB
  • After minification 345.9 kB
  • After compression 129.7 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 216.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (55%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chadwyck. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

chadwyck.co.uk 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 Chadwyck.co.uk 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 Chadwyck.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

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