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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

8ms.com

Digital & Content Marketing Agency - 8 Million Stories (8MS)

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

150 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

363 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing 8MS content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about 8ms.com

8 Million Stories (8MS) are an international digital and content marketing agency based in Edinburgh who focus on monetising your content strategy.

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Key Findings

We analyzed 8ms.com page load time and found that the first response time was 150 ms and then it took 1.6 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

8ms.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.135

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

8ms.com

150 ms

8ms.com

428 ms

gtm.js

63 ms

style.min.css

292 ms

css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original 8ms.com, 44% (18 requests) were made to Cdn.8ms.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to I.twic.pics. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (514 ms) belongs to the original domain 8ms.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 687.4 kB (66%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

361.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 8ms.com main page is 1.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 510.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 59.7 kB

  • Original 70.6 kB
  • After minification 62.8 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 7.8 kB, which is 11% 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 59.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Obviously, 8MS needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 208.6 kB

  • Original 510.5 kB
  • After minification 510.0 kB
  • After compression 301.9 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 208.6 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 418.1 kB

  • Original 464.5 kB
  • After minification 462.4 kB
  • After compression 46.3 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. 8ms.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 418.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (63%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 8MS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

8ms.com

8ms.com

150 ms

8ms.com

8ms.com

428 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

63 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

292 ms

css

css

39 ms

script

script

28 ms

styles.css

styles.css

208 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

293 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

514 ms

pintra-redirect.js

pintra-redirect.js

350 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

81 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

213 ms

index.js

index.js

149 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

356 ms

script

script

8 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

229 ms

libraries.min.js

libraries.min.js

297 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

282 ms

api.js

api.js

33 ms

index.js

index.js

288 ms

logo-white.svg

logo-white.svg

106 ms

logo-black.svg

logo-black.svg

135 ms

strike-nav-left.svg

strike-nav-left.svg

145 ms

menu-bg-xxl.jpg

menu-bg-xxl.jpg

146 ms

top-banner-xxl.png

top-banner-xxl.png

177 ms

stena-logo.png

stena-logo.png

174 ms

general-mills-logo.png

general-mills-logo.png

146 ms

burts-logo.png

burts-logo.png

145 ms

black-circles-logo.png

black-circles-logo.png

148 ms

visit-britain-logo.png

visit-britain-logo.png

148 ms

sfa-logo.png

sfa-logo.png

148 ms

tesco-bank-logo-xxl.png

tesco-bank-logo-xxl.png

177 ms

bbc-logo.png

bbc-logo.png

151 ms

glenfiddich-logo.png

glenfiddich-logo.png

151 ms

aman-logo.png

aman-logo.png

152 ms

strike-purple-to-pink.svg

strike-purple-to-pink.svg

172 ms

strike-pink-to-purple.svg

strike-pink-to-purple.svg

174 ms

font

font

102 ms

font

font

127 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

95 ms

arrow.svg

arrow.svg

52 ms

Accessibility Review

8ms.com accessibility score

76

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

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

8ms.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

8ms.com SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 8ms.com 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 8ms.com 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

8ms.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of 8MS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: