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europeanbookshop.com

Foreign language bookshop - The European Bookshop - European language and literature books and foreign language courses

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

451 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

340 ms

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About Website

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A website of the European Bookshop, the UK's leading Foreign language bookshop and distributor for foreign languages and literatures - The European Bookshop

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Key Findings

We analyzed Europeanbookshop.com page load time and found that the first response time was 451 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

europeanbookshop.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

europeanbookshop.com

451 ms

www.europeanbookshop.com

680 ms

text_styles.css

638 ms

basic_styles.css

642 ms

framework_styles.css

658 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Europeanbookshop.com, 31% (22 requests) were made to Eurobooks.co.uk and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Eurobooks.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 329.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Europeanbookshop.com main page is 3.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 42.8 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 32.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 154.4 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. European Bookshop images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 104.1 kB

  • Original 162.8 kB
  • After minification 151.4 kB
  • After compression 58.8 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 104.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 48.9 kB
  • After minification 41.7 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. Europeanbookshop.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (20%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of European Bookshop. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

europeanbookshop.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Europeanbookshop.com 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 Europeanbookshop.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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