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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

castlemedia.co.uk

Castle Media | The UK's most focussed Self-Build media company

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

973 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

697 ms

About Website

Welcome to castlemedia.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Castle Media best content right away, or after learning these important things about castlemedia.co.uk

Castle Media, home of the Build It magazine, self-build.co.uk and Build It Live exhibitions including the industry’s leading Build It Awards.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castlemedia.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 973 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castlemedia.co.uk performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castlemedia.co.uk

973 ms

style.min.css

93 ms

style-base.css

348 ms

jquery.js

346 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Castlemedia.co.uk, 26% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Castlemedia.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 93.0 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castlemedia.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 26.3 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.3 kB, which is 16% 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 20.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 71.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Castle Media images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 951 B

  • Original 224.1 kB
  • After minification 224.1 kB
  • After compression 223.1 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 168 B

  • Original 41.4 kB
  • After minification 41.4 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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. Castlemedia.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (43%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castle Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 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

castlemedia.co.uk accessibility score

80

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

castlemedia.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

castlemedia.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 Castlemedia.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 Castlemedia.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 data is detected on the main page of Castle Media. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: