Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

119 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedesignguys.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedesignguys.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.thedesignguys.co.uk

1218 ms

ga.js

35 ms

countdown.css

109 ms

style.min.css

141 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Thedesignguys.co.uk, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thedesignguys.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 727.4 kB (62%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

452.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Thedesignguys.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. CSS take 465.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 37.5 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 29.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 256.9 kB
  • After minification 253.6 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. Thedesignguys images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 287.3 kB

  • Original 419.5 kB
  • After minification 366.3 kB
  • After compression 132.2 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 287.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 407.7 kB

  • Original 465.5 kB
  • After minification 463.0 kB
  • After compression 57.8 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. Thedesignguys.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 407.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (76%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thedesignguys. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thedesignguys.co.uk 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 Thedesignguys.co.uk 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 Thedesignguys.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 Thedesignguys. 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: