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theballoonfactory.co.uk

Balloon Delivery UK | TheBalloonFactory.co.uk | Birthday Balloons | Balloon Delivery UK | Party Balloons | Online Balloon Shop

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

562 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theballoonfactory.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theballoonfactory.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.theballoonfactory.co.uk

1426 ms

calendar-win2k-1.css

85 ms

styles.css

760 ms

widgets.css

392 ms

style.css

413 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (86 requests) were addressed to the original Theballoonfactory.co.uk, 3% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Theballoonfactory.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 833.5 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

594.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Theballoonfactory.co.uk main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 800.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 68.4 kB

  • Original 78.3 kB
  • After minification 53.3 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 25.0 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 68.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 392.7 kB
  • After minification 376.0 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. The Balloon Factory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 616.4 kB

  • Original 800.1 kB
  • After minification 657.7 kB
  • After compression 183.7 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 616.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 131.9 kB

  • Original 157.2 kB
  • After minification 128.9 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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. Theballoonfactory.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 131.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (56%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Balloon Factory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

theballoonfactory.co.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 Theballoonfactory.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 Theballoonfactory.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 description is not detected on the main page of The Balloon Factory. 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: