Report Summary

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

275 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homebase.crocus.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 275 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

homebase.crocus.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

homebase.crocus.co.uk

275 ms

qubit.ashx

176 ms

opentag-111663-1479202.js

21 ms

jquery-ui.css

448 ms

jquery.ui.autocomplete.css

214 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Homebase.crocus.co.uk, 5% (5 requests) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Pong.qubitproducts.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (984 ms) belongs to the original domain Homebase.crocus.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 971.2 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

967.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Homebase.crocus.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. Javascripts take 946.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 29.6 kB

  • Original 38.6 kB
  • After minification 35.3 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 29.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 622.7 kB
  • After minification 597.2 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. Homebase Crocus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 632.8 kB

  • Original 946.4 kB
  • After minification 881.2 kB
  • After compression 313.7 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 632.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 283.4 kB

  • Original 330.5 kB
  • After minification 284.2 kB
  • After compression 47.2 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. Homebase.crocus.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 283.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (43%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homebase Crocus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

homebase.crocus.co.uk SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homebase.crocus.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Homebase.crocus.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 Homebase Crocus. 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: