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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

lightfilms.co.uk

Lightfilms - home

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lightfilms.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 5.2 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

lightfilms.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,220 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lightfilms.co.uk

1605 ms

simple-line-icons.min.css

38 ms

k2.css

345 ms

shortcode-ultimate.css

177 ms

font-awesome.css

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (76 requests) were addressed to the original Lightfilms.co.uk, 14% (19 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 7% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Lightfilms.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (33%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lightfilms.co.uk main page is 3.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 90.1 kB
  • After minification 79.9 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 10.2 kB, which is 11% 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 72.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Lightfilms images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 392.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 934.7 kB
  • After compression 618.3 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 392.8 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 736.2 kB

  • Original 957.8 kB
  • After minification 803.7 kB
  • After compression 221.5 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. Lightfilms.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 736.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (58%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lightfilms. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

lightfilms.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

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

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

lightfilms.co.uk best practices score

75

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

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

lightfilms.co.uk SEO score

92

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lightfilms.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 Lightfilms.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 Lightfilms. 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: