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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

choice-fm.co.uk

Capital XTRA | The UK’s Biggest Hip Hop Station

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

242 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

497 ms

About Website

Visit choice-fm.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Choice Fm content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about choice-fm.co.uk

Bringing you the best of Hip Hop, Grime, RnB. Listen live on your radio or download the free Capital XTRA app.

Visit choice-fm.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Choice-fm.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 242 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

choice-fm.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

choice-fm.co.uk

242 ms

www.capitalxtra.com

501 ms

page_b655eb.min.css

385 ms

waitForIt.js

232 ms

gpt.js

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 182 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Choice-fm.co.uk, 75% (136 requests) were made to Imgs.capitalxtra.com and 12% (21 requests) were made to Assets.capitalxtra.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (940 ms) relates to the external source Assets.capitalxtra.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 560.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Choice-fm.co.uk main page is 2.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 218.9 kB

  • Original 254.6 kB
  • After minification 214.3 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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 40.3 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 218.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Choice Fm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 306.7 kB

  • Original 634.6 kB
  • After minification 634.5 kB
  • After compression 327.9 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 306.7 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 223 B

  • Original 239.9 kB
  • After minification 239.9 kB
  • After compression 239.7 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. Choice-fm.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (3%)

Requests Now

174

After Optimization

168

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 174 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Choice Fm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

choice-fm.co.uk accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

choice-fm.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

choice-fm.co.uk SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Choice-fm.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 Choice-fm.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 Choice Fm. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: