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dobbies.co.uk

Dobbies Garden Centres | Not Your Average Garden Centre | Dobbies Garden Centres

Page Load Speed

39.2 sec in total

First Response

412 ms

Resources Loaded

29.1 sec

Page Rendered

9.7 sec

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About Website

Welcome to dobbies.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Dobbies best content right away, or after learning these important things about dobbies.co.uk

For 150 years, the Dobbies name has stood for quality horticulture. During this time we've been proud to provide the very best products and expert advice to gardeners throughout the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dobbies.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 412 ms and then it took 38.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dobbies.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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412 ms

www.dobbies.com

1471 ms

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1041 ms

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270 ms

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1012 ms

Our browser made a total of 150 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dobbies.co.uk, 67% (101 requests) were made to Dobbies.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to D.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.7 sec) relates to the external source Dobbies.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 657.2 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dobbies.co.uk main page is 2.2 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 51.5 kB

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 64.5 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 51.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 55.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Dobbies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 549.5 kB

  • Original 809.0 kB
  • After minification 809.0 kB
  • After compression 259.4 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 549.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 638 B

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 948 B

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. Dobbies.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 638 B or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (27%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

97

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dobbies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

dobbies.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dobbies.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English 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 Dobbies.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

dobbies.co.uk

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