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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

the-beacon-hx.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

206 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

764 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed The-beacon-hx.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 206 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

the-beacon-hx.co.uk performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

the-beacon-hx.co.uk

206 ms

thebeaconhx.com

543 ms

beacon.css

141 ms

default.css

198 ms

nivo-slider.css

295 ms

Our browser made a total of 130 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original The-beacon-hx.co.uk, 27% (35 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 26% (34 requests) were made to Thebeaconhx.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) relates to the external source Thebeaconhx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of The-beacon-hx.co.uk main page is 2.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 9.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 60.4 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB

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. The Beacon Hx images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 40.1 kB
  • After minification 34.0 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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 15.4 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 15.5 kB
  • After minification 13.3 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. The-beacon-hx.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (22%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

80

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Beacon Hx. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

the-beacon-hx.co.uk accessibility score

48

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

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

Best Practices

the-beacon-hx.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

the-beacon-hx.co.uk SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise The-beacon-hx.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 The-beacon-hx.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 The Beacon Hx. 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: