Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

northlight-images.co.uk

Northlight Images UK commercial photography experts

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

238 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

324 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Northlight Images content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about northlight-images.co.uk

Commercial photographer based in Leicester, in the UK East Midlands. Specialist corporate photography of industry, architecture and the built environment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northlight-images.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 238 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northlight-images.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.106

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northlight-images.co.uk

238 ms

www.northlight-images.co.uk

238 ms

basic.css

156 ms

ga.js

35 ms

cse.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Northlight-images.co.uk, 24% (10 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 19% (8 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (715 ms) belongs to the original domain Northlight-images.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

492.7 kB

After Optimization

442.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Northlight-images.co.uk main page is 492.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 360.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 30.2 kB
  • After minification 28.8 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 22.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 360.6 kB
  • After minification 358.4 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. Northlight Images images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 76.4 kB
  • After minification 76.4 kB
  • After compression 71.6 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

-85%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 25.4 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Northlight-images.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (47%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northlight Images. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

northlight-images.co.uk accessibility score

81

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

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

northlight-images.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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

northlight-images.co.uk SEO score

87

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Northlight-images.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 Northlight-images.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 Northlight Images. 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: