Report Summary

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gpscentral.com

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Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

193 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gpscentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gpscentral.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gpscentral.com

96 ms

gpscentral.ca

322 ms

www.gpscentral.ca

464 ms

jqueryui.tabs.css

156 ms

wf-varB.css

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 167 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gpscentral.com, 49% (81 requests) were made to Gpscentral.ca and 24% (40 requests) were made to Shop.gpscentral.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Shop.gpscentral.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (49%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Gpscentral.com main page is 4.4 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. Javascripts take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 139.6 kB

  • Original 176.9 kB
  • After minification 173.9 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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 139.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 346.3 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, GPS Central needs image optimization as it can save up to 346.3 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 715.5 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 1.6 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 17.1 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Gpscentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (26%)

Requests Now

161

After Optimization

119

The browser has sent 161 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GPS Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gpscentral.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 Gpscentral.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

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