Report Summary

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    Performance

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

yell.co.uk

Yell.com - the UK's leading online business directory

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

912 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yell.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 912 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

yell.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.yell.com

912 ms

WFPCK-BAAYS-7KPQT-TR4MN-5Q7UB

35 ms

ga.131107.js

235 ms

config.js

11 ms

analytics.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Yell.co.uk, 20% (4 requests) were made to and 15% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (912 ms) relates to the external source Yell.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 240.2 kB (37%)

Content Size

650.5 kB

After Optimization

410.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Yell.co.uk main page is 650.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 347.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 216.0 kB

  • Original 347.8 kB
  • After minification 347.7 kB
  • After compression 131.8 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 216.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 219.1 kB
  • After minification 219.1 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. Yell images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 83.6 kB
  • After minification 83.6 kB
  • After compression 59.4 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 24.2 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (47%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Yell. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

yell.co.uk SEO score

0

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 Yell.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 Yell.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 Yell. 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: