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bulbs2go.co.uk

Online Electrical Wholesalers | The Electrical Guys

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

288 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bulbs2go.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bulbs2go.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bulbs2go.co.uk

1302 ms

styles.css

164 ms

widgets.css

176 ms

itemslider.css

175 ms

generic-nav.css

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 159 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (134 requests) were addressed to the original Bulbs2go.co.uk, 4% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Seal.globalsign.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Ssif1.globalsign.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (39%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Bulbs2go.co.uk main page is 2.7 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 134.1 kB

  • Original 156.1 kB
  • After minification 131.5 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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 24.6 kB, which is 16% 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 134.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

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. Bulbs 2 Go images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 606.5 kB

  • Original 828.7 kB
  • After minification 691.8 kB
  • After compression 222.2 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 606.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 305.5 kB

  • Original 350.5 kB
  • After minification 208.7 kB
  • After compression 45.1 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. Bulbs2go.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 305.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (55%)

Requests Now

154

After Optimization

70

The browser has sent 154 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bulbs 2 Go. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 38 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

bulbs2go.co.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 Bulbs2go.co.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 Bulbs2go.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 Bulbs 2 Go. 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: