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wallpapersdirect.co.uk

Wallpaper and fabric online : Wallpaper Direct

Page Load Speed

13.7 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

11.4 sec

Page Rendered

263 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wallpapersdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 11.7 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

wallpapersdirect.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.wallpaperdirect.com

1976 ms

MyFontsWebfontsKit.css

165 ms

styles.css

250 ms

product_details_box.css

167 ms

home.css

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 259 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Wallpapersdirect.co.uk, 1% (2 requests) were made to Seal.thawte.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Wallpaperdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (45%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Wallpapersdirect.co.uk main page is 2.7 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 212.8 kB

  • Original 236.7 kB
  • After minification 205.0 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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 31.7 kB, which is 13% 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 212.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 384.2 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, Wallpaper S Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 384.2 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 529.8 kB

  • Original 702.9 kB
  • After minification 608.7 kB
  • After compression 173.1 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 529.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 72.4 kB
  • After minification 53.4 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Wallpapersdirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (19%)

Requests Now

258

After Optimization

209

The browser has sent 258 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wallpaper S Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

wallpapersdirect.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 Wallpapersdirect.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 Wallpapersdirect.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 Wallpaper S Direct. 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: