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stirlingcastle.gov.uk

Stirling Castle

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

328 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

701 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stirlingcastle.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 328 ms and then it took 6.3 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

stirlingcastle.gov.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

stirlingcastle.gov.uk

328 ms

www.stirlingcastle.gov.uk

1770 ms

all.css

584 ms

metadigitalCustom.css

336 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

579 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Stirlingcastle.gov.uk, 22% (16 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net and 16% (12 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Stirlingcastle.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 790.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Stirlingcastle.gov.uk main page is 6.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 114.1 kB

  • Original 142.6 kB
  • After minification 119.9 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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 22.6 kB, which is 16% 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 114.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Stirling Castle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 542.6 kB

  • Original 780.7 kB
  • After minification 734.7 kB
  • After compression 238.2 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 542.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 92.5 kB

  • Original 108.1 kB
  • After minification 81.4 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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. Stirlingcastle.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 92.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (13%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stirling Castle. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

stirlingcastle.gov.uk SEO score

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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 Stirlingcastle.gov.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 Stirlingcastle.gov.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 Stirling Castle. 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: