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blackwoodspress.com

Erik the Black's Hiking Maps | Blackwoods Press

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

790 ms

Page Rendered

227 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackwoodspress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackwoodspress.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blackwoodspress.com

129 ms

style.css

47 ms

nggallery.css

87 ms

shutter-reloaded.css

113 ms

comment-reply.min.js

120 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Blackwoodspress.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (391 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackwoodspress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 307.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Blackwoodspress.com main page is 1.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 2.7 kB, which is 11% 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 20.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 136.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 926.0 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. Obviously, Blackwoods Press needs image optimization as it can save up to 136.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 94.7 kB

  • Original 159.2 kB
  • After minification 153.5 kB
  • After compression 64.5 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 94.7 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 55.8 kB

  • Original 66.6 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. Blackwoodspress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 55.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (56%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackwoods Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blackwoodspress.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blackwoodspress.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blackwoodspress.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 Blackwoods Press. 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: