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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

meetcardiff.com

Meet in Cardiff • The official Cardiff Convention Bureau

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

320 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

421 ms

About Website

Visit meetcardiff.com now to see the best up-to-date Meet Cardiff content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about meetcardiff.com

Meet in Cardiff is a free support service for organising business events. We can help hire venue space, meeting rooms and book accommodation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meetcardiff.com page load time and found that the first response time was 320 ms and then it took 3.6 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

meetcardiff.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.168

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

meetcardiff.com

320 ms

meetcardiff.com

1531 ms

gtm.js

100 ms

fonts.css

172 ms

css2

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Meetcardiff.com, 26% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (4 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Meetcardiff.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

818.4 kB

After Optimization

737.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meetcardiff.com main page is 818.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 436.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 76.7 kB

  • Original 90.4 kB
  • After minification 70.2 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 20.2 kB, which is 22% 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 76.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 461 B

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 24.7 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. Meet Cardiff images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 266.8 kB
  • After minification 266.8 kB
  • After compression 265.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 436.1 kB
  • After minification 436.1 kB
  • After compression 433.5 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. Meetcardiff.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (76%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Meet Cardiff. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

meetcardiff.com accessibility score

80

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

meetcardiff.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

meetcardiff.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Meetcardiff.com 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 Meetcardiff.com 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 Meet Cardiff. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: