Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

frequency.org.uk

Frequency Festival Lincoln | Frequency International Festival of Digital Culture, Lincoln

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Frequency content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about frequency.org.uk

Frequency Festival is a leading UK art and digital commissioning festival, hosted every two years in the historic city of Lincoln.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Frequency.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

frequency.org.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,970 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

frequency.org.uk

1007 ms

reset.css

294 ms

bootstrap.min.css

52 ms

985ae414d9.js

83 ms

style.min.css

588 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Frequency.org.uk, 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Frequency.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (13%)

Content Size

19.3 MB

After Optimization

16.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Frequency.org.uk main page is 19.3 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. 80% 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 18.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

  • Original 53.5 kB
  • After minification 48.9 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 41.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 2.2 MB

  • Original 18.5 MB
  • After minification 16.3 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. Obviously, Frequency needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.2 MB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 101.0 kB

  • Original 317.7 kB
  • After minification 317.0 kB
  • After compression 216.6 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 101.0 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 253.3 kB

  • Original 359.5 kB
  • After minification 318.0 kB
  • After compression 106.2 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. Frequency.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 253.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (47%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Frequency. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

frequency.org.uk accessibility score

75

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

frequency.org.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

frequency.org.uk SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Frequency.org.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 Frequency.org.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 Frequency. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: