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us.maisonbirks.com

Birks Official US Website: Canada’s Diamond & Fine Jewellery Leader | Birks

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

273 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

505 ms

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About Website

Welcome to us.maisonbirks.com homepage info - get ready to check US Maison Birks best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about us.maisonbirks.com

Birks - one of Canada's most prestigious jewelry brands since 1879. Discover a unique selection for each occasion.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Us.maisonbirks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 273 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

us.maisonbirks.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.maisonbirks.com

273 ms

calendar-win2k-1.1375713574.css

51 ms

styles.1455548616.css

150 ms

baobazLivepipe.1437074429.css

67 ms

ch_style.1447358148.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Us.maisonbirks.com, 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (493 ms) relates to the external source Maisonbirks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Us.maisonbirks.com 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 929.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 103.4 kB

  • Original 120.1 kB
  • After minification 91.9 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 28.2 kB, which is 23% 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 103.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 65.0 kB

  • Original 929.1 kB
  • After minification 864.0 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. US Maison Birks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 712.0 kB

  • Original 920.6 kB
  • After minification 684.5 kB
  • After compression 208.5 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 712.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 682.7 kB

  • Original 754.3 kB
  • After minification 661.5 kB
  • After compression 71.6 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. Us.maisonbirks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 682.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (47%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of US Maison Birks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

us.maisonbirks.com 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 Us.maisonbirks.com 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 Us.maisonbirks.com 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 US Maison Birks. 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: