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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

alisonweir.org.uk

Alison Weir - The Official Site of Author and Historian Alison Weir

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

344 ms

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

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The official site of author and historian Alison Weir, featuring news of upcoming events and book releases along with exclusive content from Alison herself.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alisonweir.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alisonweir.org.uk performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.055

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alisonweir.org.uk

14 ms

alisonweir.org.uk

140 ms

css.css

13 ms

formatting.css

21 ms

css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Alisonweir.org.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (140 ms) belongs to the original domain Alisonweir.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 965.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

10.8 MB

After Optimization

9.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alisonweir.org.uk main page is 10.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 16.5 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 11.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 953.3 kB

  • Original 10.8 MB
  • After minification 9.8 MB

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. Alison Weir images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 447 B

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Alisonweir.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 447 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

96

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alison Weir. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

alisonweir.org.uk accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

alisonweir.org.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

alisonweir.org.uk SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alisonweir.org.uk 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 Alisonweir.org.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 Alison Weir. 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: