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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 36

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

saffron-directory.co.uk

Saffron Directory - Saffron Walden's number one business directory

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

About Website

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The Saffron Directory contains information on 1300+ shops, services, societies, clubs, community organisations and leisure activities in Saffron Walden

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saffron-directory.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 3.3 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

saffron-directory.co.uk performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.189

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

saffron-directory.co.uk

162 ms

www.saffrondirectory.co.uk

1184 ms

css

34 ms

all.css

31 ms

bootstrap.min.css

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Saffron-directory.co.uk, 80% (44 requests) were made to Saffrondirectory.co.uk and 7% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Saffrondirectory.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 44.7 kB (35%)

Content Size

126.1 kB

After Optimization

81.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Saffron-directory.co.uk main page is 126.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 64.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 16.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 64.9 kB
  • After minification 64.9 kB
  • After compression 46.9 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 18.0 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 40.4 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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. Saffron-directory.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.7 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (36%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Saffron Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

saffron-directory.co.uk accessibility score

36

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

saffron-directory.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

saffron-directory.co.uk SEO score

80

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Saffron-directory.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Saffron-directory.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 Saffron Directory. 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: