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glasgowguide.co.uk

Glasgow Guide: Hotels and City Tourist Information Scotland, UK

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

395 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

195 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Glasgow Guide content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about glasgowguide.co.uk

Glasgow Guide: the tourist information guide to the city of Glasgow in Scotland includes information for tourists on hotels, shops, pubs, clubs, photographs, visitor attractions, street maps, and more...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glasgowguide.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 395 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glasgowguide.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

glasgowguide.co.uk

395 ms

lightbox.css

87 ms

gg1.css

264 ms

gg_pp.js

167 ms

popup.js

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Glasgowguide.co.uk, 10% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (780 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.1 kB (42%)

Content Size

216.4 kB

After Optimization

126.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Glasgowguide.co.uk main page is 216.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 94.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 41.8 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 51.5 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 41.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 94.4 kB
  • After minification 88.7 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. Glasgow Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 27.6 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 7.4 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

  • Original 41.3 kB
  • After minification 37.4 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. Glasgowguide.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (35%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glasgow Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

glasgowguide.co.uk

glasgowguide.co.uk

395 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

87 ms

gg1.css

gg1.css

264 ms

gg_pp.js

gg_pp.js

167 ms

popup.js

popup.js

166 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

250 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

168 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

268 ms

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175 ms

js.php

js.php

132 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

15 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

32 ms

effects.js

effects.js

89 ms

close.png

close.png

83 ms

resize.gif

resize.gif

274 ms

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274 ms

zbg1.gif

zbg1.gif

179 ms

gg5.gif

gg5.gif

179 ms

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z-all.gif

179 ms

gg-whatson-bg.gif

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178 ms

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190 ms

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150 ms

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glasgow_links.gif

151 ms

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glasgow_t-1.jpg

150 ms

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glasgow_t-2.jpg

151 ms

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glasgow_t-3.jpg

150 ms

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188 ms

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223 ms

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227 ms

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229 ms

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231 ms

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Wallace-Monument.jpg

428 ms

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252 ms

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kelvingrove.jpg

303 ms

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428 ms

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427 ms

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Hilton%20Glasgow%20Hotel%203.jpg

427 ms

Menzies%20Glasgow%20Hotel%20&%20Leisure%20Club%202.jpg

Menzies%20Glasgow%20Hotel%20&%20Leisure%20Club%202.jpg

428 ms

glasgow_news_stories.gif

glasgow_news_stories.gif

503 ms

ggbb_join_today_525px.gif

ggbb_join_today_525px.gif

582 ms

top_sml.gif

top_sml.gif

503 ms

JsMapper.ashx

JsMapper.ashx

411 ms

hc_searchbox.css

hc_searchbox.css

74 ms

ca-pub-8512019970747605.js

ca-pub-8512019970747605.js

691 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

657 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

158 ms

ads

ads

780 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

608 ms

hc_pixel.gif

hc_pixel.gif

413 ms

hc_icon_calendar.png

hc_icon_calendar.png

117 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

446 ms

abg.js

abg.js

561 ms

osd.js

osd.js

364 ms

ads

ads

561 ms

favicon

favicon

439 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

412 ms

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

59 ms

x_button_blue2.png

x_button_blue2.png

136 ms

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81 ms

ads

ads

329 ms

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45 ms

favicon

favicon

86 ms

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65 ms

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48 ms

activeview

activeview

14 ms

activeview

activeview

48 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

177 ms

closelabel.gif

closelabel.gif

157 ms

hotelsinscotland%20gghp.png

hotelsinscotland%20gghp.png

349 ms

ui

ui

159 ms

SEO Factors

glasgowguide.co.uk SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Glasgowguide.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 Glasgowguide.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

glasgowguide.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Glasgow Guide. 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: