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sg.royalmail.com

Royal Mail | Royal Mail Group Ltd

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

378 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

374 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Sg Royal Mail content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sg.royalmail.com

Royal Mail is the UK's most trusted letters and parcels delivery company. We provide a 6-days-a-week, one-price-goes anywhere postal service across the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sg.royalmail.com page load time and found that the first response time was 378 ms 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

sg.royalmail.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.royalmail.com

378 ms

css_ef543e901e01f76d62f2993f829c5caf_50002.css

372 ms

css_f17f1ca48baa325262445137e595c8cc_50001.css

187 ms

css_f2fcdd1125856da9468c47c8084835ba_50002.css

317 ms

css_25e4d7154ee8b199efb4b7aa11b1b73b_50002.css

558 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Sg.royalmail.com, 9% (4 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to C.webtrends.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Royalmail.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 902.4 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

785.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Sg.royalmail.com main page is 1.7 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. Javascripts take 802.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 56.5 kB
  • After minification 53.7 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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 41.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 41.7 kB

  • Original 561.7 kB
  • After minification 520.0 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. Sg Royal Mail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 599.9 kB

  • Original 802.3 kB
  • After minification 722.6 kB
  • After compression 202.3 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 599.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 219.5 kB

  • Original 267.0 kB
  • After minification 262.6 kB
  • After compression 47.5 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. Sg.royalmail.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 219.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (80%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sg Royal Mail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sg.royalmail.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 Sg.royalmail.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 Sg.royalmail.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 Sg Royal Mail. 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: