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perceptionsport.com

Perception Kayaks | USA & Canada | Kayaks for Recreation, Fishing, Touring & More

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

441 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Perceptionsport.com page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

perceptionsport.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

perceptionsport.com

79 ms

www.perceptionsport.com

53 ms

785 ms

jquery.js

12 ms

jquery.once.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Perceptionsport.com, 60% (58 requests) were made to Perceptionkayaks.com and 11% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (785 ms) relates to the external source Perceptionkayaks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (17%)

Content Size

7.0 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Perceptionsport.com main page is 7.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 35.9 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 39.5 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 5.1 kB, which is 11% 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 35.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 389.8 kB

  • Original 5.9 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Perception Sport images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 411.4 kB

  • Original 617.9 kB
  • After minification 580.5 kB
  • After compression 206.5 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 411.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 344.4 kB

  • Original 416.9 kB
  • After minification 412.6 kB
  • After compression 72.5 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. Perceptionsport.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 344.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (53%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Perception Sport. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Perceptionsport.com 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 Perceptionsport.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 Perception Sport. 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: