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hcscrafts.co.uk

home18 HCS Crafts

Page Load Speed

17 sec in total

First Response

405 ms

Resources Loaded

16.2 sec

Page Rendered

475 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hcscrafts.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 405 ms and then it took 16.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hcscrafts.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hcscrafts.co.uk

405 ms

www.hcscrafts.com

13420 ms

css

24 ms

1bc4beaa0108a7a90ec0903e31a49315.css

729 ms

prototype.js

495 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hcscrafts.co.uk, 86% (89 requests) were made to Hcscrafts.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13.4 sec) relates to the external source Hcscrafts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (50%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Hcscrafts.co.uk main page is 2.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 190.1 kB

  • Original 220.0 kB
  • After minification 179.1 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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 41.0 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 190.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. HCS Crafts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 730.7 kB

  • Original 917.4 kB
  • After minification 638.3 kB
  • After compression 186.7 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 730.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 366.5 kB

  • Original 422.3 kB
  • After minification 334.0 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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. Hcscrafts.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 366.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (55%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HCS Crafts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hcscrafts.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 Hcscrafts.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 Hcscrafts.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 HCS Crafts. 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: