Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

watershed.co.uk

Watershed | Cultural cinema, talent development and creative technology in Bristol

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

260 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

302 ms

watershed.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Watershed content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about watershed.co.uk

Watershed is an independent cinema and creative technology centre on Bristol’s historic harbourside. Find out what’s on at Watershed, including cinema and event listings, café & bar, venue hire, talen...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Watershed.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 260 ms and then it took 2 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

watershed.co.uk performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

watershed.co.uk

260 ms

www.watershed.co.uk

349 ms

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94 ms

css_tlYKSLGoQVlNZBTe-xsXSOVMwtsOswzGjI2vlwsPCdw.css

184 ms

css_W9ZY4TwFW1eeNWRhPwJdHzMryB7Ovkwo97E5s7iA6Zk.css

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Watershed.co.uk, 12% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (447 ms) belongs to the original domain Watershed.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 588.0 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

551.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Watershed.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 463.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 77.4 kB

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 84.8 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 77.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 370.5 kB
  • After minification 363.0 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. Watershed images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 328.2 kB

  • Original 463.4 kB
  • After minification 392.7 kB
  • After compression 135.1 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 328.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 174.8 kB

  • Original 214.5 kB
  • After minification 213.0 kB
  • After compression 39.7 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. Watershed.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 174.8 kB or 82% 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 Watershed. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

watershed.co.uk accessibility score

89

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

watershed.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

watershed.co.uk SEO score

91

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 Watershed.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 Watershed.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 Watershed. 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: