Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

blog.next.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.next.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.next.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value54,310 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value77.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.next.co.uk

103 ms

style-stories

385 ms

Poppins-font.min.css

168 ms

core.min.js

234 ms

gtm.js

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.next.co.uk, 63% (68 requests) were made to Next.co.uk and 7% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 852.3 kB (64%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

471.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Blog.next.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. Javascripts take 634.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 405.1 kB

  • Original 482.4 kB
  • After minification 479.1 kB
  • After compression 77.3 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 405.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 53.9 kB
  • After minification 53.9 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. Blog Next images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 355.1 kB

  • Original 634.8 kB
  • After minification 566.9 kB
  • After compression 279.7 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 355.1 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 92.1 kB

  • Original 152.6 kB
  • After minification 152.1 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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. Blog.next.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 92.1 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (86%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Next. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blog.next.co.uk accessibility score

89

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.

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

blog.next.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blog.next.co.uk SEO score

92

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 Blog.next.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 Blog.next.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 Blog Next. 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: