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gt4dev.co.uk

Home | GT4 Design + Web

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

292 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

195 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing GT4 Dev content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gt4dev.co.uk

GT4 Design + Web is a professional web and graphic design company based in Hamilton and Blantyre , with expertise in print and other traditional media.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gt4dev.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 292 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gt4dev.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gt4dev.co.uk

292 ms

www.gt4.co.uk

171 ms

www.gt4.co.uk

384 ms

reset.css

82 ms

960.css

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gt4dev.co.uk, 85% (17 requests) were made to Gt4.co.uk and 10% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (557 ms) relates to the external source Gt4.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 306.6 kB (69%)

Content Size

447.0 kB

After Optimization

140.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gt4dev.co.uk main page is 447.0 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 396.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 26.5 kB
  • After minification 22.8 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 3.7 kB, which is 14% 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 21.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 116 B

  • Original 3.4 kB
  • After minification 3.3 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. GT4 Dev images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 268.2 kB

  • Original 396.8 kB
  • After minification 385.1 kB
  • After compression 128.7 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 268.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 20.2 kB
  • After minification 16.3 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Gt4dev.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (59%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GT4 Dev. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gt4dev.co.uk

gt4dev.co.uk

292 ms

www.gt4.co.uk

www.gt4.co.uk

171 ms

www.gt4.co.uk

www.gt4.co.uk

384 ms

reset.css

reset.css

82 ms

960.css

960.css

208 ms

screen.css

screen.css

241 ms

cufon-yui.js

cufon-yui.js

326 ms

Optimum_400-Optimum_700-Optimum_italic_400-Optimum_italic_700.font.js

Optimum_400-Optimum_700-Optimum_italic_400-Optimum_italic_700.font.js

443 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

452 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

286 ms

jquery.dimensions.js

jquery.dimensions.js

292 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js

557 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js

368 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

375 ms

ga.js

ga.js

21 ms

bdrop_top.png

bdrop_top.png

83 ms

gt4_logo.png

gt4_logo.png

87 ms

bdrop_hero_global.png

bdrop_hero_global.png

85 ms

bdrop_bottom.png

bdrop_bottom.png

84 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

SEO Factors

gt4dev.co.uk SEO score

0

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 Gt4dev.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 Gt4dev.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

gt4dev.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of GT4 Dev. 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: