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gcfloors.co.uk

GC Floors - Carpet, LVT, Safety Flooring, Vinyl | Trade Prices

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

604 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

943 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcfloors.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 604 ms and then it took 5.7 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

gcfloors.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.gcfloors.co.uk

604 ms

jquery.min.js

266 ms

css

105 ms

css

125 ms

fa.css

328 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Gcfloors.co.uk, 9% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.ekmsecure.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Gcfloors.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 149.8 kB (42%)

Content Size

352.8 kB

After Optimization

203.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Gcfloors.co.uk main page is 352.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 115.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 40.3 kB
  • After minification 31.2 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 9.0 kB, which is 22% 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 32.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 83.7 kB
  • After minification 82.4 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. GC Floors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 45.1 kB

  • Original 115.8 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 70.7 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 45.1 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 113.0 kB
  • After minification 84.2 kB
  • After compression 42.1 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. Gcfloors.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (67%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GC Floors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

gcfloors.co.uk SEO score

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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 Gcfloors.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 Gcfloors.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 GC Floors. 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: