Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

hitchintv.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

525 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

474 ms

About Website

Welcome to hitchintv.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Hitchintv best content right away, or after learning these important things about hitchintv.co.uk

HitchinTV is an award winning design agency. High Quality Video Production, Photography, Social Media & Website Design based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hitchintv.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 525 ms and then it took 4.9 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

hitchintv.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hitchintv.co.uk

525 ms

6d9323966c17e60782459a18bc7bd5bf.css

92 ms

9502ab814d75471cdd677480f155feca.css

172 ms

e26a22b8800d7b814ca087b5a59f056d.css

326 ms

fa9c29b6f28d1290ea28664fd02c2ad7.css

246 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Hitchintv.co.uk, 18% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (747 ms) belongs to the original domain Hitchintv.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 248.3 kB (31%)

Content Size

799.2 kB

After Optimization

550.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Hitchintv.co.uk main page is 799.2 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. 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. Javascripts take 390.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 144.3 kB

  • Original 172.4 kB
  • After minification 172.3 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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 144.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.7 kB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Hitchintv images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 51.9 kB

  • Original 390.0 kB
  • After minification 390.0 kB
  • After compression 338.1 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 51.9 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 52.1 kB

  • Original 234.0 kB
  • After minification 234.0 kB
  • After compression 181.9 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. Hitchintv.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.1 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (89%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hitchintv. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hitchintv.co.uk accessibility score

86

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

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

hitchintv.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

hitchintv.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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hitchintv.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Hitchintv.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 Hitchintv. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: