Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

myhometown-schools.co.uk

My Home Town UK Schools Colleges & Old School Friends People Finder

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

755 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

186 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Myhometown-schools.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 755 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

myhometown-schools.co.uk performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

myhometown-schools.co.uk

755 ms

mystylesheet.css

184 ms

boardtl.gif

261 ms

old-school-photo.jpg

282 ms

chalkboardtl2.gif

258 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Myhometown-schools.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Myhometown-schools.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.4 kB (19%)

Content Size

190.3 kB

After Optimization

154.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Myhometown-schools.co.uk main page is 190.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 162.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 26.7 kB
  • After minification 22.8 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 3.9 kB, which is 15% 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 19.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 162.9 kB
  • After minification 147.3 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. My Home Town Schools images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 587 B

  • Original 770 B
  • After minification 632 B
  • After compression 183 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. Myhometown-schools.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 587 B or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (35%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Home Town Schools. 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.

Accessibility Review

myhometown-schools.co.uk accessibility score

68

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

Best Practices

myhometown-schools.co.uk best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

myhometown-schools.co.uk SEO score

69

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Myhometown-schools.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 Myhometown-schools.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of My Home Town Schools. 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: