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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

castingcollective.co.uk

UK Film & TV Extras Casting Agency | The Casting Collective

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Casting Collective content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about castingcollective.co.uk

The Casting Collective is the UK's largest background casting agency of supporting artistes, extras and walkons for film, TV, commercial and photographic industries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castingcollective.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castingcollective.co.uk performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castingcollective.co.uk

43 ms

castingcollective.co.uk

157 ms

www.castingcollective.co.uk

489 ms

js

73 ms

css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Castingcollective.co.uk, 42% (32 requests) were made to Cmsfiles.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Cmsfiles.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.5 kB (0%)

Content Size

8.4 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castingcollective.co.uk main page is 8.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 31.6 kB
  • After minification 25.9 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.6 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 24.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 8.2 MB
  • After minification 8.2 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. Casting Collective images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 163.1 kB
  • After minification 163.1 kB
  • After compression 160.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 62 B

  • Original 44.2 kB
  • After minification 44.2 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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. Castingcollective.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (44%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

37

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Casting Collective. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

castingcollective.co.uk accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

castingcollective.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

castingcollective.co.uk SEO score

100

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Castingcollective.co.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 Castingcollective.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 Casting Collective. 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: