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britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

764 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

255 ms

blogs.css

260 ms

modernizr.js

11 ms

jquery-1.8.0.min.js

26 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom.min.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk, 21% (15 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Www.bl.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (757 ms) relates to the external source Uk.sitestat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 540.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk main page is 2.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 56.6 kB

  • Original 73.7 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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 8.3 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 56.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. British Library Typepad images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 397.5 kB

  • Original 555.9 kB
  • After minification 510.6 kB
  • After compression 158.4 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 397.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 57.3 kB

  • Original 65.5 kB
  • After minification 43.9 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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. Britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 57.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (49%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of British Library Typepad. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Britishlibrary.typepad.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 Britishlibrary.typepad.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of British Library Typepad. 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: