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derrycity.gov.uk

Derry City & Strabane - Home

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

295 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

272 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Derrycity.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 295 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

derrycity.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

derrycity.gov.uk

295 ms

www.derrystrabane.com

536 ms

bootstrap.min.css

48 ms

GetResource.ashx

406 ms

slicknav.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Derrycity.gov.uk, 70% (43 requests) were made to Derrystrabane.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Babm.texthelp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Derrystrabane.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 828.9 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

578.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Derrycity.gov.uk main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 673.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 27.6 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 35.2 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. 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 27.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 293.3 kB

  • Original 673.3 kB
  • After minification 380.0 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. Obviously, Derry City needs image optimization as it can save up to 293.3 kB or 44% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 324.6 kB

  • Original 471.3 kB
  • After minification 462.8 kB
  • After compression 146.7 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 324.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 183.3 kB

  • Original 223.7 kB
  • After minification 221.6 kB
  • After compression 40.3 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. Derrycity.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 183.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (57%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Derry City. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

derrycity.gov.uk SEO score

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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 Derrycity.gov.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 Derrycity.gov.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 Derry City. 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: