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    Best Practices

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build-a-bear.de

Build-A-Bear-Workshop ® - Teddybär zum Selbermachen

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

516 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Build A Bear content for Germany. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about build-a-bear.de

Dein Teddy zum Selbermachen! Jeder Teddybär ist ein Unikat mit Herz, Geburtsurkunde und Bärenhaus. Ein bärenstarkes Erlebnis ab 16,90€.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Build-a-bear.de page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

build-a-bear.de performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

build-a-bear.de

233 ms

shop.build-a-bear.de

975 ms

buildabear_home.asp

601 ms

reset.css

208 ms

buildabear.css

726 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Build-a-bear.de, 61% (63 requests) were made to Shop.build-a-bear.de and 10% (10 requests) were made to Estore.rhiem.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Estore.rhiem.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 630.5 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Build-a-bear.de main page is 2.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 31.7 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 6.0 kB, which is 16% 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 30.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 407.5 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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, Build A Bear needs image optimization as it can save up to 407.5 kB 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 402 B

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 192.0 kB

  • Original 224.4 kB
  • After minification 182.1 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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. Build-a-bear.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 192.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (40%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build A Bear. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Build-a-bear.de can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German 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 Build-a-bear.de main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Build A Bear. 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: