Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

9.8 sec in total

First Response

646 ms

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

113 ms

bulbsdirect.com.au screenshot

About Website

Welcome to bulbsdirect.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Bulbsdirect best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about bulbsdirect.com.au

Bulbs Direct Express Mail Order has over 400 varieties of flowering bulbs and perennials including daffodils, freesia, tulips, iris, liliums and many other varieties of flowering bulbs

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bulbsdirect.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 646 ms and then it took 9.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bulbsdirect.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bulbsdirect.com.au

646 ms

www.bulbsdirect.com.au

906 ms

BD_Logo.gif

867 ms

dmenu.js

4039 ms

Bulbs%20Direct%20horizontal%20menu%20050806.js

1893 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Bulbsdirect.com.au and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Bulbsdirect.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 59.8 kB (22%)

Content Size

269.7 kB

After Optimization

209.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Bulbsdirect.com.au main page is 269.7 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 191.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 16.2 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 13.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 191.4 kB
  • After minification 187.8 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. Bulbsdirect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 43.2 kB

  • Original 62.1 kB
  • After minification 60.2 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 43.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bulbsdirect. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

bulbsdirect.com.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bulbsdirect.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Bulbsdirect.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Bulbsdirect. 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: