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germanbookshop.co.uk

The German Bookshop - German language and literature books and German Courses

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

471 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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About Website

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A website of the European Bookshop, the UK's leading bookshop and distributor for European languages and literatures

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Key Findings

We analyzed Germanbookshop.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 471 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

germanbookshop.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

germanbookshop.co.uk

471 ms

887 ms

736 ms

local.css

255 ms

css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Germanbookshop.co.uk, 25% (8 requests) were made to Eurobooks.co.uk and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (887 ms) belongs to the original domain Germanbookshop.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

482.2 kB

After Optimization

409.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Germanbookshop.co.uk main page is 482.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 421.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 49.0 kB

  • Original 59.6 kB
  • After minification 53.0 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.6 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 49.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 421.6 kB
  • After minification 398.4 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. German Bookshop images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 104 B

  • Original 982 B
  • After minification 982 B
  • After compression 878 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. Germanbookshop.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104 B or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of German Bookshop. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

germanbookshop.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Germanbookshop.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 Germanbookshop.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 German Bookshop. 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: