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reefbase.co.uk

Marine Fishkeeping - The Forum for Reef & Marine Fish Keeping in the UK

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

388 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

3.9 sec

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About Website

Visit reefbase.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Reef Base content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about reefbase.co.uk

A Marine Fishkeeping Forum based in the UK. Join ReefBase for help & advice or to contribute your own knowledge and experience of keeping a Marine Reef Aquarium.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Reefbase.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 388 ms and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

reefbase.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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388 ms

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245 ms

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41 ms

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49 ms

ie.css

213 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Reefbase.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Reefbase.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 515.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

9.7 MB

After Optimization

9.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Reefbase.co.uk main page is 9.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 77.7 kB
  • After minification 77.7 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 63.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 451.7 kB

  • Original 9.6 MB
  • After minification 9.1 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. Reef Base images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 391 B

  • Original 81.9 kB
  • After minification 81.9 kB
  • After compression 81.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 169 B

  • Original 11.2 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. Reefbase.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (31%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reef Base. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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388 ms

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245 ms

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41 ms

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index.css

49 ms

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213 ms

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31 ms

script.js

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41 ms

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69 ms

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670 ms

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64 ms

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281 ms

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75 ms

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215 ms

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38 ms

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32 ms

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13 ms

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655 ms

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239 ms

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240 ms

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1666 ms

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1267 ms

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1450 ms

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1552 ms

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269 ms

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1619 ms

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1579 ms

SEO Factors

reefbase.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 Reefbase.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 Reefbase.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

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