Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

timeout.co.uk

Time Out | Best Things To Do and Events In Cities Worldwide

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

662 ms

timeout.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Timeout.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 3.5 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

timeout.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,890 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

timeout.co.uk

191 ms

www.timeout.co.uk

164 ms

www.timeout.com

54 ms

dashicons.min.css

31 ms

jPages.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 137 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Timeout.co.uk, 29% (40 requests) were made to Timeout.com and 21% (29 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (614 ms) relates to the external source Timeout.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (40%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Timeout.co.uk main page is 3.0 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. 85% 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 55.3 kB

  • Original 68.6 kB
  • After minification 65.1 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 55.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Time Out images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 549.5 kB

  • Original 817.1 kB
  • After minification 792.4 kB
  • After compression 267.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 549.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 546.1 kB

  • Original 663.3 kB
  • After minification 601.2 kB
  • After compression 117.2 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. Timeout.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 546.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (48%)

Requests Now

129

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 129 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Time Out. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

timeout.co.uk accessibility score

87

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

timeout.co.uk best practices score

83

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

timeout.co.uk SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Timeout.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 Timeout.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 Time Out. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: