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howarth-timber.co.uk

Howarth Timber & Building Supplies - Timber Merchants UK

Page Load Speed

10.6 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

howarth-timber.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Howarth Timber content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about howarth-timber.co.uk

With over 180 years' trading experience, Howarth Timber & Building Supplies provides high-quality products for your home & landscaping projects. Order online 24/7

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howarth-timber.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 10.4 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

howarth-timber.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

howarth-timber.co.uk

168 ms

www.howarth-timber.co.uk

668 ms

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

112 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

103 ms

webfont.js

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Howarth-timber.co.uk, 53% (57 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source Cdn11.bigcommerce.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (29%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Howarth-timber.co.uk main page is 5.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 529.8 kB

  • Original 671.8 kB
  • After minification 668.6 kB
  • After compression 142.0 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. 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 529.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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, Howarth Timber needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 49.9 kB
  • After compression 47.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 600 B

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. Howarth-timber.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (52%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howarth Timber. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

howarth-timber.co.uk SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Howarth-timber.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 Howarth-timber.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 description is not detected on the main page of Howarth Timber. 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: