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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

ashgate.co.uk

Webmate Maintenance

Page Load Speed

916 ms in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

568 ms

Page Rendered

101 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ashgate.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 669 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

ashgate.co.uk performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ashgate.co.uk

247 ms

css

35 ms

crane-graphic.png

321 ms

wm-logo-white.png

164 ms

va9B4kDNxMZdWfMOD5VnSKzeRhf_.ttf

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Ashgate.co.uk, 33% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 17% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (321 ms) belongs to the original domain Ashgate.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 kB (4%)

Content Size

96.4 kB

After Optimization

92.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Ashgate.co.uk main page is 96.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 91.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.4 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 2.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 734 B

  • Original 91.9 kB
  • After minification 91.2 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. Ashgate images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ashgate. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

ashgate.co.uk

ashgate.co.uk

247 ms

css

css

35 ms

crane-graphic.png

crane-graphic.png

321 ms

wm-logo-white.png

wm-logo-white.png

164 ms

va9B4kDNxMZdWfMOD5VnSKzeRhf_.ttf

va9B4kDNxMZdWfMOD5VnSKzeRhf_.ttf

16 ms

va9B4kDNxMZdWfMOD5VnPKreRhf_.ttf

va9B4kDNxMZdWfMOD5VnPKreRhf_.ttf

20 ms

Accessibility Review

ashgate.co.uk accessibility score

87

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

ashgate.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

SEO Factors

ashgate.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Ashgate.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 Ashgate.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

ashgate.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ashgate. 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: