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flax.ie

FlaxLabs Game Development

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

About Website

Welcome to flax.ie homepage info - get ready to check Flax best content right away, or after learning these important things about flax.ie

The Flax project is an Irish Game Development Programming blog written and developed by two Carlow IT Game Development students Ciarán McCann and Carl Lange.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flax.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

flax.ie performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

flax.ie

1641 ms

not-home.css

271 ms

color.php

396 ms

style_load.php

602 ms

response.css

277 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Flax.ie, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Flax.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 297.4 kB (42%)

Content Size

715.8 kB

After Optimization

418.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Flax.ie main page is 715.8 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 343.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 92.1 kB

  • Original 102.0 kB
  • After minification 52.8 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 49.2 kB, which is 48% 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 92.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 343.9 kB
  • After minification 311.4 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. Flax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 123.9 kB

  • Original 208.3 kB
  • After minification 206.5 kB
  • After compression 84.4 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 123.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 61.6 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. Flax.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (49%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flax. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

flax.ie 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 Flax.ie 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 Flax.ie 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 Flax. 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: