Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

about-london.co.uk

Directory of shops, businesses and traders in London UK

Page Load Speed

993 ms in total

First Response

288 ms

Resources Loaded

529 ms

Page Rendered

176 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed About-london.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 288 ms and then it took 705 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

about-london.co.uk performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

about-london.co.uk

288 ms

css_basic.css

130 ms

bd_standard_header.css

201 ms

bd_ad_display.css

201 ms

bd_homepage.css

209 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to About-london.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (288 ms) belongs to the original domain About-london.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.1 kB (79%)

Content Size

37.9 kB

After Optimization

7.8 kB

In fact, the total size of About-london.co.uk main page is 37.9 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 23.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 23.2 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 18.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 14.4 kB
  • After minification 8.5 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. About-london.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (60%)

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

2

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

Accessibility Review

about-london.co.uk accessibility score

91

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

about-london.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

about-london.co.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 About-london.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 About-london.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 About London. 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: