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firstunion.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

254 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

295 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstunion.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 254 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstunion.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

firstunion.co.uk

254 ms

www.firstunion.co.uk

247 ms

www.firstunion.co.uk

841 ms

style.css

520 ms

css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Firstunion.co.uk, 17% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Firstunion.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.8 kB (28%)

Content Size

486.2 kB

After Optimization

349.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Firstunion.co.uk main page is 486.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 271.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 17.6 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 2.5 kB, which is 14% 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 12.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 271.6 kB
  • After minification 270.1 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. Firstunion images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 84.7 kB

  • Original 152.5 kB
  • After minification 151.5 kB
  • After compression 67.8 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 84.7 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 44.4 kB
  • After minification 28.0 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. Firstunion.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (15%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firstunion. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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