Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 44

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

aboutmyarea.co.uk

AboutMyArea: The local interactive website

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

203 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

397 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aboutmyarea.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 203 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aboutmyarea.co.uk performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

56/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.159

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aboutmyarea.co.uk

203 ms

www.aboutmyarea.co.uk

977 ms

mootools-1.2.1-core-yc.js

482 ms

mootools-1.2-more.js

291 ms

addthis_widget.js

142 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Aboutmyarea.co.uk, 9% (6 requests) were made to Images.aboutmyarea.co.uk and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (977 ms) belongs to the original domain Aboutmyarea.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 339.1 kB (36%)

Content Size

929.8 kB

After Optimization

590.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Aboutmyarea.co.uk main page is 929.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 615.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 68.6 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 60.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 86.5 kB

  • Original 615.9 kB
  • After minification 529.3 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, About My Area needs image optimization as it can save up to 86.5 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 49.7 kB

  • Original 72.1 kB
  • After minification 70.6 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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 49.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 142.6 kB

  • Original 167.4 kB
  • After minification 126.3 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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. Aboutmyarea.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 142.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (29%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of About My Area. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aboutmyarea.co.uk accessibility score

44

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

aboutmyarea.co.uk best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

aboutmyarea.co.uk SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aboutmyarea.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 Aboutmyarea.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of About My Area. 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: