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houseofcheese.co.uk

House of Cheese - UK award-winning online mail-order UK cheese shop

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

256 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

423 ms

houseofcheese.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing House Of Cheese content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about houseofcheese.co.uk

Cheese supplier of British and continental cheeses, having an online cheese shop with mail order to UK addresses. Cheese wedding cakes a speciality.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houseofcheese.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 256 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houseofcheese.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

houseofcheese.co.uk

256 ms

www.houseofcheese.co.uk

309 ms

sellerdeck.min.css

185 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

298 ms

actiniccore.js

206 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Houseofcheese.co.uk, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Houseofcheese.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (65%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

733.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Houseofcheese.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 148.4 kB

  • Original 186.6 kB
  • After minification 175.1 kB
  • After compression 38.2 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 148.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 567 B

  • Original 439.4 kB
  • After minification 438.8 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. House Of Cheese images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 887.2 kB
  • After compression 230.3 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 1.1 MB or 83% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 106.2 kB

  • Original 132.0 kB
  • After minification 125.5 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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. Houseofcheese.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 106.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (51%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of House Of Cheese. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

houseofcheese.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Houseofcheese.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 Houseofcheese.co.uk 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 data is detected on the main page of House Of Cheese. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: