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chrisrea.com

Driving Home for Christmas | Official Site | As Heard in M&S Food Christmas Advert 2025

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chrisrea.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chrisrea.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.chrisrea.com

1834 ms

gtm.js

115 ms

cff-style.css

225 ms

font-awesome.min.css

101 ms

ctf-styles.css

292 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Chrisrea.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Analytics.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Chrisrea.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 249.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Chrisrea.com main page is 2.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 31.5 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.7 kB, which is 13% 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 29.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Chrisrea images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 120.4 kB

  • Original 216.9 kB
  • After minification 200.7 kB
  • After compression 96.5 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 120.4 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 77.7 kB

  • Original 93.9 kB
  • After minification 82.0 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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. Chrisrea.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (64%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chrisrea. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

chrisrea.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 Chrisrea.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 Chrisrea.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 Chrisrea. 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: