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victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk

Victoria County History | Institute of Historical Research

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

328 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

971 ms

About Website

Visit victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk now to see the best up-to-date Victoria County History content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk

The Victoria County History is one of the world's longest-running research projects, exploring England's rich local history. 

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Key Findings

We analyzed Victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 328 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk

328 ms

victoria-county-history

205 ms

gtm.js

103 ms

css_xWJq4sbmcyOCze8yLT-Zp3ryU2KJjfRrN6m7BAxPthQ.css

22 ms

css_elyxAMLdxNBynZg1Eev4730EYDgS9z789XocyrVgX_E.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk, 45% (10 requests) were made to History.ac.uk and 27% (6 requests) were made to Blog.history.ac.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Blog.history.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (23%)

Content Size

8.9 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk main page is 8.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 191.6 kB

  • Original 217.4 kB
  • After minification 164.3 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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 53.1 kB, which is 24% 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 191.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 8.5 MB
  • After minification 6.7 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. Obviously, Victoria County History needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.7 MB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 89.2 kB

  • Original 141.0 kB
  • After minification 141.0 kB
  • After compression 51.8 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 89.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 320 B

  • Original 40.5 kB
  • After minification 40.4 kB
  • After compression 40.2 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. Victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (21%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Victoria County History. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

victoriacountyhistory.ac.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 Victoriacountyhistory.ac.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 Victoriacountyhistory.ac.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 data is detected on the main page of Victoria County History. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: