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lowesbuildandgrow.com

DIY-U by Lowe's

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

86 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lowesbuildandgrow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Lowesbuildandgrow.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

lowesbuildandgrow.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

lowesbuildandgrow.com

1182 ms

application-error.html

8 ms

application-error.html

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Lowesbuildandgrow.com, 67% (2 requests) were made to Herokucdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Lowesbuildandgrow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 523.9 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

680.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Lowesbuildandgrow.com main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 594.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 213 B

  • Original 500 B
  • After minification 479 B
  • After compression 287 B

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 213 B or 43% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 58.0 kB

  • Original 594.5 kB
  • After minification 536.5 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. Lowe Sbuildandgrow images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 402.5 kB

  • Original 531.1 kB
  • After minification 404.7 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 402.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 78.1 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. Lowesbuildandgrow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lowesbuildandgrow.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Lowesbuildandgrow.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

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