Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

410 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

445 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Steelfirst.com page load time and found that the first response time was 410 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

steelfirst.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.steelfirst.com

410 ms

www.steelfirst.com

1111 ms

styles.css

169 ms

jquery-ui.css

326 ms

emailSubscriptions.css

268 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Steelfirst.com, 6% (7 requests) were made to Cdn.euromoneyapi.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Steelfirst.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 906.1 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

732.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Steelfirst.com main page is 1.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 724.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 111.2 kB

  • Original 135.4 kB
  • After minification 116.5 kB
  • After compression 24.2 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 18.9 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 111.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 124.9 kB

  • Original 609.5 kB
  • After minification 484.6 kB

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, Steelfirst needs image optimization as it can save up to 124.9 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 528.2 kB

  • Original 724.0 kB
  • After minification 604.0 kB
  • After compression 195.8 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 528.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 141.7 kB

  • Original 169.6 kB
  • After minification 145.6 kB
  • After compression 27.8 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. Steelfirst.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 141.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (47%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Steelfirst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

steelfirst.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Steelfirst.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Steelfirst.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 Steelfirst. 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: