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retirementdirectory.co.uk

Direct Retirement – Helping you retire peacefully

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

355 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Retirementdirectory.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 248 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

retirementdirectory.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

retirementdirectory.co.uk

248 ms

www.retirementdirectory.co.uk

600 ms

style.css

92 ms

pop.css

170 ms

smoothbox.css

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Retirementdirectory.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (632 ms) belongs to the original domain Retirementdirectory.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 544.2 kB (67%)

Content Size

808.5 kB

After Optimization

264.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Retirementdirectory.co.uk main page is 808.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 423.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 38.0 kB
  • After minification 32.5 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.4 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 30.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 69.4 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. Retirement Direct Ory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 282.8 kB

  • Original 423.0 kB
  • After minification 374.5 kB
  • After compression 140.2 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 282.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 226.1 kB

  • Original 272.8 kB
  • After minification 269.0 kB
  • After compression 46.7 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. Retirementdirectory.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 226.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (66%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Retirement Direct Ory. 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

retirementdirectory.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Retirementdirectory.co.uk 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 Retirementdirectory.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 description is not detected on the main page of Retirement Direct Ory. 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: