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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% 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

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

houghtonlespring.org.uk

Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Society, Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, Co Durham www.houghtonlespring.org.uk

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

383 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

About Website

Welcome to houghtonlespring.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check Houghton Le Spring best content right away, or after learning these important things about houghtonlespring.org.uk

Website of Houghton-le-Spring Heritage Society, a definitive and extensive history of Houghton-le-Spring, Co Durham, England. Local history brought alive with vintage old photos and research by local ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houghtonlespring.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 383 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

houghtonlespring.org.uk performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houghtonlespring.org.uk

383 ms

check_cs5.css

152 ms

SpryMenuBar.js

233 ms

check_menu.css

157 ms

cse.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Houghtonlespring.org.uk, 17% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Google.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Houghtonlespring.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

945.0 kB

After Optimization

874.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houghtonlespring.org.uk main page is 945.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 749.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 23.2 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 16.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 45.9 kB

  • Original 749.6 kB
  • After minification 703.8 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. Houghton Le Spring images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 159.1 kB
  • After minification 159.1 kB
  • After compression 155.2 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

-36%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Houghtonlespring.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (18%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houghton Le Spring. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

houghtonlespring.org.uk accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

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

houghtonlespring.org.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

SEO Factors

houghtonlespring.org.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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Houghtonlespring.org.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 Houghtonlespring.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 description is not detected on the main page of Houghton Le Spring. 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: