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afterdark.tate.org.uk

IK Prize 2014: After Dark – Special Event at Tate Britain | Tate

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

364 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Explore Tate Britain over five nights during August 2014. This is the IK Prize 2014 winning project.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Afterdark.tate.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 364 ms and then it took 6.9 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

afterdark.tate.org.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

afterdark.tate.org.uk

364 ms

after-dark

1811 ms

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253 ms

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249 ms

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252 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 Afterdark.tate.org.uk, 39% (27 requests) were made to Images.tate.org.uk and 12% (8 requests) were made to Tate.org.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) relates to the external source Images.tate.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (57%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Afterdark.tate.org.uk main page is 3.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 144.5 kB

  • Original 195.3 kB
  • After minification 189.9 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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 144.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 800.6 kB
  • After minification 774.3 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. After Dark Tate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 639.2 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 1.7 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 118.3 kB

  • Original 145.3 kB
  • After minification 142.8 kB
  • After compression 27.1 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. Afterdark.tate.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 118.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (44%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of After Dark Tate. 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

afterdark.tate.org.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 Afterdark.tate.org.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 Afterdark.tate.org.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 After Dark Tate. 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: