Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

669 ms

Page Rendered

178 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goldpricecompare.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 847 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goldpricecompare.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

goldpricecompare.co.uk

251 ms

default.css

127 ms

skin.css

123 ms

index.css

73 ms

container.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Goldpricecompare.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (251 ms) belongs to the original domain Goldpricecompare.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 291.2 kB (72%)

Content Size

403.9 kB

After Optimization

112.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Goldpricecompare.co.uk main page is 403.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 331.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 15.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 8.5 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, Goldpricecompare needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 40% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 243.5 kB

  • Original 331.9 kB
  • After minification 316.4 kB
  • After compression 88.5 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 243.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 26.1 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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. Goldpricecompare.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (78%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Goldpricecompare. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

goldpricecompare.co.uk 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 Goldpricecompare.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 Goldpricecompare.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

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