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thesharperedge.co.uk

Expired Page

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

404 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

304 ms

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About Website

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The Sharper Edge has been trading for over 10 years both in the gadget and gift markets, and the mobile phone industry. We provide electronic equipment such as solar lighting, ipod accessories, comput...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesharperedge.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 404 ms and then it took 6.5 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

thesharperedge.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thesharperedge.co.uk

404 ms

www.thesharperedge.co.uk

4678 ms

prettyPhoto.css

243 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

473 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

252 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Thesharperedge.co.uk, 8% (9 requests) were made to Cdn2.fast-serve.net and 7% (8 requests) were made to Cdn5.fast-serve.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Thesharperedge.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 798.7 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

792.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Thesharperedge.co.uk 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 666.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 180.5 kB

  • Original 200.8 kB
  • After minification 159.9 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 41.0 kB, which is 20% 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 180.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 38.1 kB

  • Original 666.6 kB
  • After minification 628.5 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. Thesharperedge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 407.4 kB

  • Original 519.0 kB
  • After minification 401.8 kB
  • After compression 111.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 407.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 172.7 kB

  • Original 204.4 kB
  • After minification 179.7 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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. Thesharperedge.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 172.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (39%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thesharperedge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thesharperedge.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 Thesharperedge.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 Thesharperedge.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 Thesharperedge. 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: