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firstgroup.com

First Bus | Bus Tickets, Timetables & Journey Planning | First Bus

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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About Website

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Our UK Bus division operates around a fifth of local bus services in the UK and is one of the largest bus operators with a fleet of approximately 6,400 buses around the England, Scotland and Wales. We...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstgroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstgroup.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

firstgroup.com

183 ms

www.firstgroup.com

810 ms

date.css

155 ms

datepicker.1.7.css

155 ms

slick-1.5.9.css

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Firstgroup.com, 28% (12 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 12% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (830 ms) belongs to the original domain Firstgroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 820.9 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firstgroup.com main page is 2.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 31.4 kB

  • Original 41.5 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 31.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. First Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 279.6 kB

  • Original 709.8 kB
  • After minification 658.9 kB
  • After compression 430.2 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 279.6 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 499.5 kB

  • Original 592.6 kB
  • After minification 466.4 kB
  • After compression 93.1 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. Firstgroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 499.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (80%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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firstgroup.com

183 ms

www.firstgroup.com

www.firstgroup.com

810 ms

date.css

date.css

155 ms

datepicker.1.7.css

datepicker.1.7.css

155 ms

slick-1.5.9.css

slick-1.5.9.css

155 ms

style.css

style.css

455 ms

mediaqueries.css

mediaqueries.css

304 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

466 ms

jquery.once.js

jquery.once.js

238 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

238 ms

slick-1.5.9-min.js

slick-1.5.9-min.js

445 ms

front.js

front.js

445 ms

loader.js

loader.js

18 ms

modernizr-3.2.0.min.js

modernizr-3.2.0.min.js

378 ms

hammer-2.0.6.min.js

hammer-2.0.6.min.js

455 ms

gmap.js

gmap.js

546 ms

main.js

main.js

546 ms

jquery.browser.min.js

jquery.browser.min.js

481 ms

jquery.xdomainrequest.min.js

jquery.xdomainrequest.min.js

482 ms

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select-bg.png

211 ms

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first-icons.woff

421 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

106 ms

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util.css

49 ms

util.css

util.css

3 ms

tooltip.css

tooltip.css

20 ms

css

css

43 ms

tooltip.css

tooltip.css

24 ms

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jsapi_compiled_format_module.js

24 ms

jsapi_compiled_ui_module.js

jsapi_compiled_ui_module.js

132 ms

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jsapi_compiled_geochart_module.js

135 ms

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124 ms

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209 ms

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analytics.js

87 ms

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2.jpg

678 ms

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1_1.jpg

830 ms

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jsapi_compiled_default_module.js

14 ms

jsapi_compiled_ui_module.js

jsapi_compiled_ui_module.js

19 ms

jsapi_compiled_geochart_module.js

jsapi_compiled_geochart_module.js

3 ms

collect

collect

71 ms

SEO Factors

firstgroup.com SEO score

0

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 Firstgroup.com 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 Firstgroup.com 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 First Group. 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: