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lowel.com

The Tiffen Company - Tiffen Filters, Steadicam, Lowel, Domke, D&S

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

166 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

321 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lowel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 166 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

lowel.com

166 ms

lowel.tiffen.com

129 ms

uikit.min.css

136 ms

uikit.addons.min.css

75 ms

jquery-1.11.1.js

291 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Lowel.com, 54% (37 requests) were made to Lowel.tiffen.com and 16% (11 requests) were made to Tiffen.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (374 ms) relates to the external source Lowel.tiffen.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 549.8 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Lowel.com main page is 1.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 23.3 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 3.7 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 21.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Lowel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 386.6 kB

  • Original 471.3 kB
  • After minification 283.3 kB
  • After compression 84.7 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 386.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 96.1 kB

  • Original 118.7 kB
  • After minification 112.6 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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. Lowel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 96.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (17%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lowel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Lowel.com 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 Lowel.com 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 Lowel. 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: