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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

switchmedia.co.uk

Domain Names | Web Hosting | Dedicated Servers | UK Based | Easyspace

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

206 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Switchmedia.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 206 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 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

switchmedia.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,160 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

switchmedia.co.uk

206 ms

www.switchmedia.co.uk

351 ms

business-web-hosting

450 ms

www.easyspace.com

328 ms

css2

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Switchmedia.co.uk, 77% (66 requests) were made to Easyspace.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Easyspace.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 137.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

888.7 kB

After Optimization

751.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Switchmedia.co.uk main page is 888.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 437.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 85.0 kB

  • Original 102.1 kB
  • After minification 80.2 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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 21.9 kB, which is 21% 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 85.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 437.4 kB
  • After minification 407.6 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. Switchmedia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 307.5 kB
  • After minification 307.5 kB
  • After compression 293.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 41.7 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 32.5 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. Switchmedia.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.2 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (38%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Switchmedia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 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

switchmedia.co.uk accessibility score

77

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

switchmedia.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

switchmedia.co.uk SEO score

77

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

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 Switchmedia.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 Switchmedia.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 Switchmedia. 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: