Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

hastings-half.co.uk

The 40th Hastings Half Marathon

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

447 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

319 ms

hastings-half.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to hastings-half.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Hastings Half best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about hastings-half.co.uk

Probably the best Half marathon in the World. The Hastings Half Marathon is organised by The Hastings Lions Club to raise monies for needy causes

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hastings-half.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 447 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hastings-half.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.251

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hastings-half.co.uk

447 ms

iview.css

242 ms

iviewskin4.css

243 ms

style.css

332 ms

site.css

247 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Hastings-half.co.uk, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Hastings-half.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (58%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Hastings-half.co.uk main page is 4.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 42.0 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 11.7 kB, which is 24% 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 42.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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, Hastings Half needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 48% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 841.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 841.2 kB
  • After compression 248.8 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 841.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 245.9 kB

  • Original 297.3 kB
  • After minification 281.5 kB
  • After compression 51.4 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. Hastings-half.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 245.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (38%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hastings Half. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hastings-half.co.uk accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

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

hastings-half.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hastings-half.co.uk SEO score

88

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hastings-half.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 Hastings-half.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 description is not detected on the main page of Hastings Half. 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: