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netmums.co.uk

Parenting advice and information in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Netmums

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

171 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

513 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Netmums.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 171 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

netmums.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

netmums.co.uk

171 ms

www.netmums.com

477 ms

netmums.website.combined.v1457356595.css

16 ms

config.js

63 ms

netmums.head.combined.v1457348800.js

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Netmums.co.uk, 58% (40 requests) were made to Cdn.netmums.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to U.heatmap.it. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (491 ms) relates to the external source I.skimresources.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 315.9 kB (32%)

Content Size

991.4 kB

After Optimization

675.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Netmums.co.uk main page is 991.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 591.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 99.5 kB

  • Original 121.0 kB
  • After minification 112.6 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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 99.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 591.1 kB
  • After minification 528.4 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. Obviously, Netmums needs image optimization as it can save up to 62.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 153.5 kB

  • Original 279.3 kB
  • After minification 278.8 kB
  • After compression 125.7 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 153.5 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (40%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Netmums. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

netmums.co.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 Netmums.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 Netmums.co.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 data is detected on the main page of Netmums. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: