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guide4living.com

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guide4living.com page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guide4living.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

guide4living.com

190 ms

www.guide4living.com

513 ms

style.css

231 ms

urchin.js

24 ms

show_ads.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Guide4living.com, 16% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 16% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (513 ms) belongs to the original domain Guide4living.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.3 kB (22%)

Content Size

101.8 kB

After Optimization

79.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guide4living.com main page is 101.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 49.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 10.7 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 7.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 48.2 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. Guide 4 Living images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 37.5 kB
  • After minification 37.3 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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 10.8 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 984 B

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. Guide4living.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (46%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guide 4 Living. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

guide4living.com

guide4living.com

190 ms

www.guide4living.com

www.guide4living.com

513 ms

style.css

style.css

231 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

24 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

9 ms

front.asp

front.asp

177 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

68 ms

ca-pub-3239886955317500.js

ca-pub-3239886955317500.js

74 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

67 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

67 ms

background-landscape.jpg

background-landscape.jpg

55 ms

cross.gif

cross.gif

129 ms

breast_ribbon.jpg

breast_ribbon.jpg

129 ms

personal_stories2.jpg

personal_stories2.jpg

132 ms

personal.gif

personal.gif

129 ms

center_ms.gif

center_ms.gif

129 ms

header.gif

header.gif

169 ms

B2D5E6.gif

B2D5E6.gif

91 ms

ads

ads

188 ms

osd.js

osd.js

27 ms

ads

ads

226 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

86 ms

abg.js

abg.js

109 ms

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125 ms

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130 ms

favicon

favicon

95 ms

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nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

85 ms

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62 ms

redir.html

redir.html

129 ms

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x_button_blue2.png

13 ms

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7 ms

SEO Factors

guide4living.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Guide4living.com 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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Guide4living.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Guide 4 Living. 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: