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saracens.com

Saracens - Transforming Lives

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Visit saracens.com now to see the best up-to-date Saracens content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about saracens.com

Originally established in 1876, with 146 years of illustrious history behind them, Saracens are London’s premier rugby club.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saracens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

saracens.com

1594 ms

default-grid.css

181 ms

css

25 ms

site.min.css

778 ms

background.jpg

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Saracens.com, 8% (8 requests) were made to I2.ytimg.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Saracens.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 805.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

10.5 MB

After Optimization

9.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Saracens.com main page is 10.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 137.2 kB

  • Original 151.3 kB
  • After minification 102.9 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 48.4 kB, which is 32% 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 137.2 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 256.1 kB

  • Original 9.8 MB
  • After minification 9.6 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. Saracens images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 234.2 kB

  • Original 362.8 kB
  • After minification 362.8 kB
  • After compression 128.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 234.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 177.7 kB

  • Original 216.2 kB
  • After minification 214.7 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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. Saracens.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 177.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (13%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

84

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Saracens. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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1594 ms

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51 ms

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4 ms

SEO Factors

saracens.com SEO score

0

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 Saracens.com 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 Saracens.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

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