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mylibrary.britishcouncil.org

British Council Digital Library catalog

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

217 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

106 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mylibrary.britishcouncil.org page load time and found that the first response time was 217 ms and then it took 1.7 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

mylibrary.britishcouncil.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

mylibrary.britishcouncil.org

217 ms

bootstrap.min.css

70 ms

jquery.min.js

61 ms

bootstrap.min.js

67 ms

initiator.php

444 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mylibrary.britishcouncil.org, 45% (15 requests) were made to Syndetics.com and 39% (13 requests) were made to Ltfl.librarything.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (444 ms) relates to the external source Ltfl.librarything.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (76%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

346.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Mylibrary.britishcouncil.org main page is 1.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 976 B

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 1.2 kB or 54% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 24.9 kB
  • After minification 20.7 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, My Library British Council needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 884.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 281.8 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 884.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 212.1 kB

  • Original 255.1 kB
  • After minification 232.1 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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. Mylibrary.britishcouncil.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 212.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (38%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Library British Council. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

mylibrary.britishcouncil.org 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 Mylibrary.britishcouncil.org 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 Mylibrary.britishcouncil.org 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 My Library British Council. 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: