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thepencompany.co.uk

The Pen Company ✒ Designer Pens, Pencils, Inks and more...

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

304 ms

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About Website

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Online pen shop selling quality branded pens and mechanical pencils from manufacturers including Caran d'Ache, Graf von Faber-Castell, Lamy, Porsche Design, Fisher Space Pens, Tombow and many more. UK...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepencompany.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 184 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 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepencompany.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thepencompany.co.uk

184 ms

www.thepencompany.com

657 ms

tpc-2r24.min.css

6 ms

swatch5614ddfda73c6.css

48 ms

float.css

431 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thepencompany.co.uk, 67% (26 requests) were made to Thepencompany.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Dash.reviews.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (657 ms) relates to the external source Thepencompany.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.1 kB (32%)

Content Size

853.3 kB

After Optimization

584.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Thepencompany.co.uk main page is 853.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 489.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 27.5 kB
  • After minification 27.4 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 20.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 363 B

  • Original 489.8 kB
  • After minification 489.4 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. The Pen Company images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 76.1 kB

  • Original 138.1 kB
  • After minification 138.1 kB
  • After compression 62.1 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 76.1 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 171.7 kB

  • Original 197.9 kB
  • After minification 187.9 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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. Thepencompany.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 171.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (24%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Pen Company. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thepencompany.co.uk 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 Thepencompany.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 Thepencompany.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 Pen Company. 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: