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Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

lighting.life

Lighting Life - Portfolio - Thomas Edwards - Light, Sound & Set - I light life.

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

864 ms

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Lighting content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about lighting.life

The online home of professional Lighting Designer & Production Technician, Thomas Edwards. Lighting, Sound & Set.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lighting.life page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lighting.life performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lighting.life

74 ms

lighting.life

180 ms

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45 ms

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24 ms

Chameleon-15-uai-258x388.jpg

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Lighting.life and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (215 ms) belongs to the original domain Lighting.life.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 218.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

993.7 kB

After Optimization

775.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Lighting.life main page is 993.7 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 746.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 218.0 kB

  • Original 246.8 kB
  • After minification 246.4 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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 218.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 746.8 kB
  • After minification 746.8 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. Lighting images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (17%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

76

  • Images

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lighting. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

lighting.life accessibility score

92

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

lighting.life best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

lighting.life 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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lighting.life 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 Lighting.life 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 Lighting. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: