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thelighthouse.co.uk

The Lighthouse - Glasgow

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

249 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

163 ms

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About Website

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Information on The Lighthouse, Glasgow. Scotland's national centre for design and architecture

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelighthouse.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 249 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelighthouse.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thelighthouse.co.uk

249 ms

www.thelighthouse.co.uk

1483 ms

17801.css

46 ms

index.php

538 ms

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

348 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Thelighthouse.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelighthouse.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 501.4 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

817.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Thelighthouse.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 833.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 59.9 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 60.1 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 59.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 138.7 kB

  • Original 833.8 kB
  • After minification 695.1 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. Obviously, The Lighthouse needs image optimization as it can save up to 138.7 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 265.2 kB

  • Original 374.7 kB
  • After minification 330.7 kB
  • After compression 109.4 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 265.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 43.6 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. Thelighthouse.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (53%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Lighthouse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thelighthouse.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 Thelighthouse.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 Thelighthouse.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 The Lighthouse. 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: