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thelightinghouse.co.uk

Home - The Lighting House

Page Load Speed

10.7 sec in total

First Response

709 ms

Resources Loaded

9.6 sec

Page Rendered

405 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelightinghouse.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 709 ms and then it took 10 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelightinghouse.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thelightinghouse.co.uk

709 ms

www.thelightinghouse.co.uk

3334 ms

stylesheet.css

233 ms

carousel.css

543 ms

css

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Thelightinghouse.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelightinghouse.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 451.8 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Thelightinghouse.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 54.9 kB
  • After minification 47.4 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 7.5 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 47.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 61.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 992.5 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 Lighting House images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 265.8 kB

  • Original 377.6 kB
  • After minification 370.3 kB
  • After compression 111.8 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 265.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 76.5 kB

  • Original 88.3 kB
  • After minification 65.6 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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. Thelightinghouse.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (9%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

72

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Lighting House. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thelightinghouse.co.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 Thelightinghouse.co.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 Thelightinghouse.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 Lighting House. 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: