Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

greenbuildingmagazine.co.uk

Green Building Press - Publisher of Green Building Magazine

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

127 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greenbuildingmagazine.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 4.1 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

greenbuildingmagazine.co.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greenbuildingmagazine.co.uk

277 ms

index.php

449 ms

index.php

385 ms

ecommerce_white.css

85 ms

shopping.js

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Greenbuildingmagazine.co.uk, 64% (37 requests) were made to Greenbuildingpress.co.uk and 10% (6 requests) were made to Feed.surfing-waves.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) relates to the external source Feed.surfing-waves.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

446.8 kB

After Optimization

411.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Greenbuildingmagazine.co.uk main page is 446.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 297.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 33.5 kB
  • After minification 31.4 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 25.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 107.7 kB
  • After minification 104.2 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. Green Building Magazine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 297.1 kB
  • After minification 297.1 kB
  • After compression 294.2 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

-39%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 8.5 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Greenbuildingmagazine.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (58%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Green Building Magazine. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

greenbuildingmagazine.co.uk accessibility score

61

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

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

greenbuildingmagazine.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

greenbuildingmagazine.co.uk SEO score

67

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

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 Greenbuildingmagazine.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 Greenbuildingmagazine.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 Green Building Magazine. 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: