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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

artistsdirectory.co.uk

Artists Directory UK - Showcase Directory of UK Visual Artists

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

236 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Artistsdirectory.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 236 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

artistsdirectory.co.uk performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.231

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

artistsdirectory.co.uk

236 ms

artistsdirectory.co.uk

428 ms

Homepage.css

78 ms

jquery.min.js

14 ms

top.gif

339 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (104 requests) were addressed to the original Artistsdirectory.co.uk, 1% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (762 ms) belongs to the original domain Artistsdirectory.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

321.2 kB

After Optimization

257.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Artistsdirectory.co.uk main page is 321.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 233.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 26.1 kB
  • After minification 24.2 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 20.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 233.3 kB
  • After minification 231.1 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. Artists Directory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 37.7 kB

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 57.3 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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 37.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 3.5 kB
  • After compression 988 B

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. Artistsdirectory.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

64

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Artists Directory. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

artistsdirectory.co.uk accessibility score

51

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

artistsdirectory.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

artistsdirectory.co.uk SEO score

58

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Artistsdirectory.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 Artistsdirectory.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 Artists Directory. 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: