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thecitytripguide.com

The City Trip Guide - Travel Guides, Hotel Reviews & News for top City Breaks

Page Load Speed

29.2 sec in total

First Response

389 ms

Resources Loaded

28.1 sec

Page Rendered

660 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The City Trip Guide content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thecitytripguide.com

The City Trip Guide is dedicated with providing you with all the latest travel knowledge for all of the popular European city break destinations. This includes where to stay, what to eat, how you can ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecitytripguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 389 ms and then it took 28.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecitytripguide.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thecitytripguide.com

389 ms

www.thecitytripguide.com

1228 ms

style.css

334 ms

css

169 ms

shareaholic.js

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 149 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Thecitytripguide.com, 5% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Px.owneriq.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13.1 sec) relates to the external source Delivery.sunfishads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 885.0 kB (43%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecitytripguide.com main page is 2.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 981.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 290.2 kB

  • Original 325.3 kB
  • After minification 321.2 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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. 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 290.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 981.5 kB
  • After minification 945.0 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. The City Trip Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 529.3 kB

  • Original 735.7 kB
  • After minification 727.5 kB
  • After compression 206.4 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 529.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 34.8 kB
  • After minification 26.7 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. Thecitytripguide.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (50%)

Requests Now

130

After Optimization

65

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 130 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The City Trip Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

thecitytripguide.com 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 Thecitytripguide.com 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 Thecitytripguide.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The City Trip Guide. 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: