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karlrixon.co.uk

Karl Rixon – Sussex Web Developer & Technology Blog

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Karlrixon.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

karlrixon.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.karlrixon.co.uk

1393 ms

style.css

244 ms

styles.css

163 ms

codecolorer.css

167 ms

jquery.js

563 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Karlrixon.co.uk, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Karlrixon.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 241.8 kB (68%)

Content Size

355.9 kB

After Optimization

114.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Karlrixon.co.uk main page is 355.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 152.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 127.5 kB

  • Original 150.1 kB
  • After minification 148.4 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 127.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 23.8 kB
  • After minification 21.5 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. Karl Rixon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 87.3 kB

  • Original 152.3 kB
  • After minification 150.6 kB
  • After compression 65.0 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 87.3 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 29.8 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Karlrixon.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (40%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Karl Rixon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

karlrixon.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Karlrixon.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Karlrixon.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 Karl Rixon. 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: