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parkrun.info

Home We organise free weekly timed runs all over the world. Held in pleasant parkland on weekend mornings, our runs are open to all – from juniors and...

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

638 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parkrun.info page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

parkrun.info

170 ms

www.parkrun.com

164 ms

css

23 ms

style.css

228 ms

modernizr.custom.min.js

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Parkrun.info, 73% (33 requests) were made to Parkrun.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (828 ms) relates to the external source Parkrun.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 511.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Parkrun.info main page is 2.9 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 64.0 kB
  • After minification 61.3 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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. 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 45.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 890 B

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Parkrun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 300.3 kB

  • Original 456.6 kB
  • After minification 433.8 kB
  • After compression 156.3 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 300.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 164.7 kB

  • Original 189.9 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. Parkrun.info needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 164.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (30%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Parkrun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts 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 Parkrun.info 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 Parkrun.info 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 Parkrun. 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: