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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

hitsradio.co.uk

Hits Radio | The Biggest Hits. The Biggest Throwbacks

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

384 ms

About Website

Visit hitsradio.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Hits Radio content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hitsradio.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hitsradio.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hitsradio.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,480 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.203

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1123 ms

wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js

32 ms

ima3.js

65 ms

nprogress.css

239 ms

185605-93864739362203.js

202 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Hitsradio.co.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Assets.planetradio.co.uk and 6% (2 requests) were made to Media.bauerradio.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Planetradio.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.0 MB (69%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hitsradio.co.uk main page is 5.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 4.0 MB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.3 MB
  • After compression 361.0 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 4.0 MB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 286.3 kB
  • After minification 286.3 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. Hits Radio images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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

-86%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 538 B
  • After compression 417 B

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. Hitsradio.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (72%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hits Radio. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hitsradio.co.uk accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

hitsradio.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hitsradio.co.uk SEO score

86

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 doesn't use 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 Hitsradio.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 Hitsradio.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 Hits Radio. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: