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thistlesports.com

Thistle Sports - Specialist Sports Retailer Since 1992

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

3.4 sec

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About Website

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Leading specialist sports retailer based in Aberdeen - supplying the highest quality sports equipment and clothing from leading brands. Professional racquet stringing service available. We cater for a...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thistlesports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 9.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thistlesports.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thistlesports.com

207 ms

www.thistlesports.com

1044 ms

css

190 ms

theme.css

327 ms

jquery.min.js

272 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Thistlesports.com, 80% (72 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.shopify.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (61%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

724.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Thistlesports.com main page is 1.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. CSS take 693.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 314.5 kB

  • Original 361.5 kB
  • After minification 351.9 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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 314.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 518.8 kB
  • After minification 518.8 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. Thistle Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 207.1 kB

  • Original 294.4 kB
  • After minification 273.8 kB
  • After compression 87.2 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 207.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 621.3 kB

  • Original 693.0 kB
  • After minification 567.9 kB
  • After compression 71.7 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. Thistlesports.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 621.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (41%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thistle Sports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Thistlesports.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 Thistlesports.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 data is detected on the main page of Thistle Sports. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: