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urbangazette.uk

Vox Urban | For City Makers

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

394 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Urbangazette.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

urbangazette.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

urbangazette.uk

255 ms

www.urbangazette.uk

730 ms

www.voxurban.com

279 ms

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94 ms

css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Urbangazette.uk, 37% (31 requests) were made to Cdn.voxurban.com and 13% (11 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.voxurban.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 169.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

991.7 kB

After Optimization

822.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Urbangazette.uk main page is 991.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 761.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 63.4 kB

  • Original 76.4 kB
  • After minification 76.4 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 63.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 761.2 kB
  • After minification 755.9 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. Urban Gazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 65.1 kB

  • Original 111.4 kB
  • After minification 111.2 kB
  • After compression 46.3 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 65.1 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 42.8 kB
  • After minification 40.9 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. Urbangazette.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (33%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Urban Gazette. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

urbangazette.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 Urbangazette.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 Urbangazette.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 data is detected on the main page of Urban Gazette. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: