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homeretailgroup.com

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

357 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

198 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeretailgroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 357 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homeretailgroup.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.homeretailgroup.com

357 ms

reset.css

82 ms

layout.css

255 ms

type.css

161 ms

color.css

261 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Homeretailgroup.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Pressarea.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (725 ms) belongs to the original domain Homeretailgroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 359.1 kB (42%)

Content Size

861.8 kB

After Optimization

502.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homeretailgroup.com main page is 861.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 455.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 15.3 kB
  • After minification 14.1 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 11.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 455.5 kB
  • After minification 416.0 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. Homeretailgroup images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 227.6 kB

  • Original 296.7 kB
  • After minification 175.4 kB
  • After compression 69.1 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 227.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 80.5 kB

  • Original 94.3 kB
  • After minification 69.4 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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. Homeretailgroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 80.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (30%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homeretailgroup. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.homeretailgroup.com

www.homeretailgroup.com

357 ms

reset.css

reset.css

82 ms

layout.css

layout.css

255 ms

type.css

type.css

161 ms

color.css

color.css

261 ms

util.css

util.css

163 ms

sml.css

sml.css

161 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

163 ms

argos_76731975201974_thumb.jpg

argos_76731975201974_thumb.jpg

226 ms

we_re_home_retail_group_768x332px.jpg

we_re_home_retail_group_768x332px.jpg

725 ms

logo-hrg.png

logo-hrg.png

317 ms

hrg_homepage_nav_sprite.gif

hrg_homepage_nav_sprite.gif

257 ms

logo_homepage.gif

logo_homepage.gif

322 ms

financial_services_homepage_nav_sprite.gif

financial_services_homepage_nav_sprite.gif

327 ms

join_us_module_-_new_image.jpg

join_us_module_-_new_image.jpg

407 ms

shareholders_module_image_-_spreadsheet_and_calculator.jpg

shareholders_module_image_-_spreadsheet_and_calculator.jpg

406 ms

shareholders_module_image_-_shareprice_graph.jpg

shareholders_module_image_-_shareprice_graph.jpg

399 ms

dummy-reportsmodule.jpg

dummy-reportsmodule.jpg

404 ms

jquery.1.6.2.js

jquery.1.6.2.js

492 ms

jquery.backgroundPosition.js

jquery.backgroundPosition.js

503 ms

jquery.cycle.js

jquery.cycle.js

518 ms

jquery.sml.libs.js

jquery.sml.libs.js

645 ms

jquery.sml.js

jquery.sml.js

504 ms

common.js

common.js

575 ms

argos_76731975201974_thumb.jpg

argos_76731975201974_thumb.jpg

79 ms

carousel.css

carousel.css

334 ms

header-shim.gif

header-shim.gif

86 ms

logo.png

logo.png

84 ms

search-button.jpg

search-button.jpg

87 ms

main-menu-bg-empty.png

main-menu-bg-empty.png

86 ms

arrow-trans-icon.gif

arrow-trans-icon.gif

84 ms

carousel-control-item.gif

carousel-control-item.gif

162 ms

arrow_link_01.gif

arrow_link_01.gif

165 ms

new_window_01.gif

new_window_01.gif

165 ms

arrow_link_07_white.gif

arrow_link_07_white.gif

163 ms

footer-bg.gif

footer-bg.gif

172 ms

phone_01.gif

phone_01.gif

172 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

245 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

247 ms

pdf_01.gif

pdf_01.gif

246 ms

blb-webfont.woff

blb-webfont.woff

273 ms

blr-webfont.woff

blr-webfont.woff

253 ms

blbi-webfont.woff

blbi-webfont.woff

257 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

313 ms

controls.png

controls.png

312 ms

custom_controls.png

custom_controls.png

304 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

SEO Factors

homeretailgroup.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homeretailgroup.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Homeretailgroup.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

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