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uswitch.ie

Uswitch.com - So many ways to save

Page Load Speed

686 ms in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

630 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uswitch.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 630 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uswitch.ie performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

www.uswitch.com

56 ms

preflight.css

7 ms

perf.js

18 ms

preflight.css

19 ms

cookie.aa88912f.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Uswitch.ie, 11% (2 requests) were made to Assets0.uswitch.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Img.uswitch.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (102 ms) relates to the external source Assets0.uswitch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 236.4 kB (40%)

Content Size

589.0 kB

After Optimization

352.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Uswitch.ie main page is 589.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 247.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 198.9 kB

  • Original 247.1 kB
  • After minification 246.9 kB
  • After compression 48.2 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 198.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 82.8 kB
  • After minification 82.8 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. Uswitch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 246.5 kB
  • After minification 246.5 kB
  • After compression 210.3 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 36.2 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 12.7 kB
  • After minification 12.7 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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. Uswitch.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (76%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uswitch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

uswitch.ie SEO score

0

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 Uswitch.ie 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 Uswitch.ie 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 Uswitch. 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: