Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

davefrost.co.uk

Dave Frost – Musings from Canvey Island – General ranty stuff from a curmudgeonly resident of Canvey Island in Essex

Page Load Speed

27.5 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

24.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Davefrost.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 26 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

davefrost.co.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.davefrost.co.uk

1544 ms

style.css

349 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

298 ms

wp-mediaelement.css

208 ms

twentyeleven.css

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Davefrost.co.uk, 8% (9 requests) were made to S0.wp.com and 8% (8 requests) were made to Pixel.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Newdomain.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (50%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Davefrost.co.uk main page is 2.3 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. 80% 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 69.8 kB

  • Original 87.6 kB
  • After minification 85.1 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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. 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 69.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 712.1 kB
  • After minification 709.8 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. Dave Frost images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 726.9 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 947.9 kB
  • After compression 310.5 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 726.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 348.4 kB

  • Original 451.7 kB
  • After minification 433.7 kB
  • After compression 103.4 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. Davefrost.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 348.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (65%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dave Frost. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

davefrost.co.uk accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

davefrost.co.uk best practices score

85

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

davefrost.co.uk SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Davefrost.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 Davefrost.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 data is detected on the main page of Dave Frost. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: