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franchiseindex.co.uk

Franchise Directory UK | Franchise UK - Franchise Index

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

335 ms

Resources Loaded

958 ms

Page Rendered

296 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Franchiseindex.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 335 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

franchiseindex.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

franchiseindex.co.uk

335 ms

style.css

100 ms

chosen.css

55 ms

jquery.min.1.8.3.js

143 ms

easySlider1.5.js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Franchiseindex.co.uk, 3% (1 request) were made to App.purechat.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (368 ms) relates to the external source App.purechat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 212.1 kB (37%)

Content Size

568.7 kB

After Optimization

356.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Franchiseindex.co.uk main page is 568.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 352.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 24.1 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 5.0 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 18.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 50.3 kB

  • Original 352.4 kB
  • After minification 302.0 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, Franchise Index needs image optimization as it can save up to 50.3 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 75.6 kB

  • Original 114.1 kB
  • After minification 109.2 kB
  • After compression 38.5 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 75.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 67.4 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 59.9 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. Franchiseindex.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 67.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (9%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Franchise Index. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

franchiseindex.co.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 Franchiseindex.co.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 Franchiseindex.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 Franchise Index. 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: