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blog.chemistdirect.co.uk

ChemistDirect blog - Health, pharmacy and prescription product articles

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

457 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

697 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.chemistdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 457 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Blog.chemistdirect.co.uk rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

blog.chemistdirect.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blog.chemistdirect.co.uk

457 ms

1389 ms

style.css

252 ms

css

26 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.chemistdirect.co.uk, 40% (49 requests) were made to Blog.chemistdirect.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk and 16% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Chemistdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 596.9 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

821.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Blog.chemistdirect.co.uk main page is 1.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 636.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 72.8 kB

  • Original 90.2 kB
  • After minification 83.0 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 72.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 628.6 kB
  • After minification 588.1 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. Blog Chemist Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 431.9 kB

  • Original 636.3 kB
  • After minification 610.3 kB
  • After compression 204.4 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 431.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 51.7 kB

  • Original 63.3 kB
  • After minification 45.8 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. Blog.chemistdirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (69%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Chemist Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blog.chemistdirect.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 Blog.chemistdirect.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 data is detected on the main page of Blog Chemist Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: