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golfhelp.com

#1 Golf Search Engine - Find golf equipment, golf links, courses, tips and more

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

431 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Golfhelp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 431 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

golfhelp.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

golfhelp.com

431 ms

template_css.css

575 ms

prototype.lite.js

461 ms

moo.fx.js

462 ms

litebox-1.0.js

598 ms

Our browser made a total of 160 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Golfhelp.com, 43% (68 requests) were made to Myitview.com and 15% (24 requests) were made to Preshotroutine.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (891 ms) relates to the external source Myitview.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (64%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

607.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Golfhelp.com main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 61.6 kB

  • Original 70.6 kB
  • After minification 57.5 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 13.1 kB, which is 19% 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 61.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 168.0 kB
  • After minification 160.1 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. Golf Help images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 821.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 400.9 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 821.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 169.0 kB

  • Original 206.0 kB
  • After minification 171.1 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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. Golfhelp.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 169.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 111 (82%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Golf Help. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Golfhelp.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 Golfhelp.com 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 Golf Help. 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: