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buildasign.co.uk

Custom Signs, Boards, Magnetic Signs, Banners & Posters| BuildASign UK

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildasign.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildasign.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

buildasign.co.uk

172 ms

www.buildasign.co.uk

272 ms

colorbox.css

228 ms

json2.min.js

233 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

275 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Buildasign.co.uk, 61% (17 requests) were made to Static.buildasign.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to T.p.mybuys.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (453 ms) relates to the external source Static.buildasign.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 331.2 kB (53%)

Content Size

628.4 kB

After Optimization

297.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buildasign.co.uk main page is 628.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 467.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 28.8 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 19.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 9 B

  • Original 124.9 kB
  • After minification 124.9 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. BuildA Sign images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 305.5 kB

  • Original 467.0 kB
  • After minification 353.8 kB
  • After compression 161.4 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 305.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 5.8 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Buildasign.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (68%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BuildA Sign. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

buildasign.co.uk

buildasign.co.uk

172 ms

www.buildasign.co.uk

www.buildasign.co.uk

272 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

228 ms

json2.min.js

json2.min.js

233 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

275 ms

jquery-migrate-dev.js

jquery-migrate-dev.js

247 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

290 ms

basLandingPricing.js

basLandingPricing.js

267 ms

960.css

960.css

269 ms

reset.css

reset.css

297 ms

typography.css

typography.css

303 ms

gen-overrides.css

gen-overrides.css

304 ms

main-clean-uk.css

main-clean-uk.css

312 ms

WebForms.js

WebForms.js

180 ms

MicrosoftAjax.js

MicrosoftAjax.js

453 ms

MicrosoftAjaxWebForms.js

MicrosoftAjaxWebForms.js

327 ms

BAS_NewHeaderSprite.png

BAS_NewHeaderSprite.png

49 ms

uk_logo.png

uk_logo.png

81 ms

uk-home_20110623.jpg

uk-home_20110623.jpg

155 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

97 ms

mybuys_qs.js

mybuys_qs.js

49 ms

cbox-bas-overlay.png

cbox-bas-overlay.png

45 ms

ga.js

ga.js

73 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

36 ms

59 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

29 ms

42 ms

mybuys4.js

mybuys4.js

4 ms

SEO Factors

buildasign.co.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 Buildasign.co.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 Buildasign.co.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of BuildA Sign. 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: