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longacres.co.uk

Longacres Garden Centres – Visit our Online Shop for Today’s Offers

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

307 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

783 ms

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About Website

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Longacres, the largest independent garden centre in the UK. Based in Surrey, we supply everything for your home and garden, both in-store and online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Longacres.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 307 ms and then it took 4.5 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

longacres.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

longacres.co.uk

307 ms

www.longacres.co.uk

816 ms

default.css

500 ms

sifr.css

167 ms

jquery-1.3.2.js

474 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Longacres.co.uk, 21% (29 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 10% (14 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (863 ms) relates to the external source Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 630.4 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Longacres.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 47.9 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 35.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Longacres images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 488.1 kB

  • Original 768.9 kB
  • After minification 764.7 kB
  • After compression 280.8 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 488.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 55.6 kB

  • Original 64.6 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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. Longacres.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 55.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (50%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Longacres. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

longacres.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Longacres.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Longacres.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 Longacres. 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: