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shl.lon.ac.uk

Intercollegiate Halls | University of London

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

368 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shl.lon.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shl.lon.ac.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

shl.lon.ac.uk

244 ms

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

624 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

151 ms

css_7giCUMKk6ecqdAutbF3zSyqN4f633P93vKGacNbQF7k.css

463 ms

css_MnXiytJtb186Ydycnpwpw34cuUsHaKc80ey5LiQXhSY.css

643 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shl.lon.ac.uk, 72% (26 requests) were made to Senatehouselibrary.ac.uk and 8% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 237.7 kB (39%)

Content Size

605.9 kB

After Optimization

368.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Shl.lon.ac.uk main page is 605.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 311.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 70.8 kB

  • Original 85.4 kB
  • After minification 82.3 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 70.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 311.6 kB
  • After minification 300.8 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. Shl Lon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 86.4 kB

  • Original 121.1 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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 86.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 69.7 kB

  • Original 87.7 kB
  • After minification 86.4 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. Shl.lon.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 69.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (55%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shl Lon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

shl.lon.ac.uk SEO score

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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 Shl.lon.ac.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 Shl.lon.ac.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 Shl Lon. 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: