Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

576 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Signpostdesign.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 576 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

signpostdesign.co.uk performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

signpostdesign.co.uk

576 ms

css

26 ms

bootstrap.css

190 ms

style.css

215 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

211 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Signpostdesign.co.uk, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (856 ms) belongs to the original domain Signpostdesign.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 124.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Signpostdesign.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 976.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 6.3 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 3.9 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 976.8 kB
  • After minification 966.1 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. Signpostdesign images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 85.4 kB

  • Original 138.3 kB
  • After minification 122.9 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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 85.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Signpostdesign.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (37%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Signpostdesign. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

signpostdesign.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

Best Practices

signpostdesign.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

signpostdesign.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Signpostdesign.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Signpostdesign.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 Signpostdesign. 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: