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blackwoodsxpress.com.au

Blackwoods - First for Industrial Supplies and Safety | Blackwoods

Page Load Speed

11.2 sec in total

First Response

725 ms

Resources Loaded

10 sec

Page Rendered

475 ms

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About Website

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Over the past 140 years, Blackwoods has grown from being a small marine supply business on the banks of Sydney Harbour, to where we are today, Australia’s largest provider of industrial and safety sup...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackwoodsxpress.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 725 ms and then it took 10.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackwoodsxpress.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blackwoodsxpress.com.au

725 ms

www.blackwoodsxpress.com.au

1604 ms

8c5d85d9f5923b4b35ce24e13ef44b08.css

1500 ms

5cf53438c56c67f6a9c432f33522a6b8.js

2361 ms

sli-rac.css

1097 ms

Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Blackwoodsxpress.com.au, 8% (11 requests) were made to Google.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Blackwoodsxpress.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (54%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Blackwoodsxpress.com.au main page is 3.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 325.6 kB

  • Original 361.6 kB
  • After minification 199.8 kB
  • After compression 36.0 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 161.8 kB, which is 45% 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 325.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Blackwoods Xpress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 468.7 kB

  • Original 774.2 kB
  • After minification 773.6 kB
  • After compression 305.6 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 468.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-99%

Potential reduce by 991.5 kB

  • Original 997.6 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. Blackwoodsxpress.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 991.5 kB or 99% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (37%)

Requests Now

134

After Optimization

84

The browser has sent 134 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackwoods Xpress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blackwoodsxpress.com.au 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 Blackwoodsxpress.com.au 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 Blackwoodsxpress.com.au 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 Xpress. 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: