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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

forcespenpals.co.uk

ForcesPenpals - military penpals, military dating & support for armed forces

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

419 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

324 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forcespenpals.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 419 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forcespenpals.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.583

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forcespenpals.co.uk

419 ms

www.forcespenpals.co.uk

237 ms

www.forcespenpals.co.uk

557 ms

tracker.js

42 ms

jquery.Jcrop.css

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Forcespenpals.co.uk, 3% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (734 ms) belongs to the original domain Forcespenpals.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (58%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

933.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forcespenpals.co.uk main page is 2.2 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. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 160.7 kB

  • Original 204.1 kB
  • After minification 197.1 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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 160.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 41.7 kB

  • Original 510.1 kB
  • After minification 468.3 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. Forces Penpals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 874.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 384.3 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 874.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 221.5 kB

  • Original 259.3 kB
  • After minification 205.8 kB
  • After compression 37.8 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. Forcespenpals.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 221.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (38%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

70

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forces Penpals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forcespenpals.co.uk accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

forcespenpals.co.uk best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

forcespenpals.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forcespenpals.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 Forcespenpals.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Forces Penpals. 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: