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plumbcenter.co.uk

Wolseley | The Specialist Merchant | Free delivery + collection nationwide

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

414 ms

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About Website

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Discover plumbing, heating, cooling, drainage and mechanical supplies at trade prices with Wolseley. Formerly Plumb Center, Parts Center, Climate Center.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plumbcenter.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plumbcenter.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

plumbcenter.co.uk

191 ms

www.plumbcenter.co.uk

352 ms

adrum.js

238 ms

global.css

319 ms

common_wolseley.css

408 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Plumbcenter.co.uk, 6% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Gtrk.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (718 ms) belongs to the original domain Plumbcenter.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (52%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Plumbcenter.co.uk main page is 3.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 105.5 kB

  • Original 126.2 kB
  • After minification 108.4 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 17.8 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 105.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 156.1 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. Obviously, Plumbcenter needs image optimization as it can save up to 156.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 450.4 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 1.3 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 305.8 kB

  • Original 363.1 kB
  • After minification 294.1 kB
  • After compression 57.2 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. Plumbcenter.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 305.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (42%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plumbcenter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

plumbcenter.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Plumbcenter.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 Plumbcenter.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

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