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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

geckosurf.co.uk

Gecko Rhosneigr, surf shop, surf lessons, surf hire

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

306 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

318 ms

About Website

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Gecko Surf in Rhosneigr is a wonderful surf school in the heart of Rhosneigr in Anglesey, North Wales. Gecko Surf offers a variety of surf activities for all levels of experience as well as offering t...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geckosurf.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 306 ms and then it took 1.8 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

geckosurf.co.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

geckosurf.co.uk

306 ms

css

20 ms

css

35 ms

bootstrap.css

406 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Geckosurf.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Geckosurf.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 645.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Geckosurf.co.uk main page is 2.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 14.9 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 3.2 kB, which is 22% 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 11.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 283.8 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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, Gecko Surf needs image optimization as it can save up to 283.8 kB 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

-58%

Potential reduce by 88.5 kB

  • Original 152.4 kB
  • After minification 152.4 kB
  • After compression 63.9 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 88.5 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 262.1 kB

  • Original 293.6 kB
  • After minification 240.8 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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. Geckosurf.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 262.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (21%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gecko Surf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

geckosurf.co.uk accessibility score

80

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

geckosurf.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

geckosurf.co.uk SEO score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Geckosurf.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 Geckosurf.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 description is not detected on the main page of Gecko Surf. 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: