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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

castledrivingschool.com

Weekly and Intensive Driving Lessons, Colchester, Essex from Castle Driving School

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

137 ms

About Website

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We offer a range of weekly driving lessons, intensive driving courses and refresher courses to suit any pupil. We have been teaching the people of Colchester, Clacton and the surrounding villages to d...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castledrivingschool.com page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castledrivingschool.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castledrivingschool.com

32 ms

castledrivingschool.com

211 ms

249 ms

style.css

16 ms

button125x90.gif

400 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Castledrivingschool.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Collingwoodlearners.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (613 ms) relates to the external source Collingwood.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 144.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

503.8 kB

After Optimization

359.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castledrivingschool.com main page is 503.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 469.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 13.1 kB
  • After minification 13.1 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 8.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 135.6 kB

  • Original 469.3 kB
  • After minification 333.7 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, Castle Driving School needs image optimization as it can save up to 135.6 kB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 51 B

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 118 B

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. Castledrivingschool.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (45%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castle Driving School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

castledrivingschool.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

castledrivingschool.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

castledrivingschool.com 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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Castledrivingschool.com 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 Castledrivingschool.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Castle Driving School. 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: