Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk

Northern Poetry Library > A Storehouse of words - Northern Poetry Library

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

573 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

141 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Northern Poetry Library content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk

The Northern Poetry Library is the largest collection of post-World War II poetry in England outside London, home to finely-tuned, moving, sometimes unnerving words. Find out more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 573 ms and then it took 2.4 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

northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.165

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

NPL

573 ms

modernizr-spydus.js

92 ms

bootstrap.min.css

264 ms

spydus.css

248 ms

all.min.css

382 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (716 ms) relates to the external source Northumberland.spydus.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 364.8 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk main page is 1.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 51.0 kB
  • After minification 51.0 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. 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 40.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 234.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 920.9 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. Obviously, Northern Poetry Library needs image optimization as it can save up to 234.8 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 206.9 kB
  • After minification 200.6 kB
  • After compression 161.1 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 45.8 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 43.7 kB

  • Original 128.8 kB
  • After minification 128.7 kB
  • After compression 85.1 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. Northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.7 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (78%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northern Poetry Library. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Northernpoetrylibrary.org.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 Northernpoetrylibrary.org.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 Northern Poetry Library. 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: