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ploughmen.co.uk

The Society of Ploughmen

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

531 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

356 ms

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About Website

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The Society of Ploughmen are the organisers of the annual British National Ploughing Championships held in a different part of Great Britain each year.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ploughmen.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 531 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ploughmen.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

ploughmen.co.uk

531 ms

jquery.min.js

7 ms

main.js

157 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

164 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

232 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Ploughmen.co.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Ploughmen.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ploughmen.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 3.4 kB, which is 18% 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 14.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 646 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Ploughmen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 55.0 kB

  • Original 99.6 kB
  • After minification 88.7 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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 55.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 66.3 kB

  • Original 77.0 kB
  • After minification 48.1 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Ploughmen.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 66.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (66%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ploughmen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ploughmen.co.uk

ploughmen.co.uk

531 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

7 ms

main.js

main.js

157 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

164 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

232 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

179 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

178 ms

main.css

main.css

385 ms

slippry.min.js

slippry.min.js

309 ms

slippry.css

slippry.css

353 ms

jquery.colorbox.js

jquery.colorbox.js

351 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

277 ms

list-portfolio.css

list-portfolio.css

274 ms

society-of-ploughmen-logo.png

society-of-ploughmen-logo.png

231 ms

header-bg.png

header-bg.png

156 ms

society-of-ploughmen-fair.jpg

society-of-ploughmen-fair.jpg

1306 ms

sliderarrow.png

sliderarrow.png

156 ms

world-ploughing-2016.jpg

world-ploughing-2016.jpg

1764 ms

british-national-ploughing-championships.jpg

british-national-ploughing-championships.jpg

2309 ms

soil-bg.png

soil-bg.png

308 ms

british-national-ploughing-championships.png

british-national-ploughing-championships.png

461 ms

grey-gt-bullet.png

grey-gt-bullet.png

385 ms

tractor-ploughing-field.png

tractor-ploughing-field.png

614 ms

facebook_marker.png

facebook_marker.png

538 ms

twitter_marker.png

twitter_marker.png

615 ms

location_marker.png

location_marker.png

693 ms

telephone_marker.png

telephone_marker.png

768 ms

email_marker.png

email_marker.png

769 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

28 ms

featured-link-bullet.png

featured-link-bullet.png

791 ms

featured-link-bullet-dark.png

featured-link-bullet-dark.png

866 ms

sy-loader.gif

sy-loader.gif

869 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

SEO Factors

ploughmen.co.uk SEO score

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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 Ploughmen.co.uk 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 Ploughmen.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

ploughmen.co.uk

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