Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

banddirectory.co.uk

Band Directory

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

191 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Banddirectory.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

banddirectory.co.uk performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.banddirectory.co.uk

2169 ms

default.css

375 ms

default.js

611 ms

bg1.jpg

884 ms

band-directory.jpg

315 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Banddirectory.co.uk, 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 14% (2 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Banddirectory.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

231.6 kB

After Optimization

196.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Banddirectory.co.uk main page is 231.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 172.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 38.5 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 32.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 172.3 kB
  • After minification 172.3 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. Band Directory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Banddirectory.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Band Directory. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

banddirectory.co.uk accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

banddirectory.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

banddirectory.co.uk SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Banddirectory.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 Banddirectory.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Band Directory. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: