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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

thewritingdesk.co.uk

Fountain Pen Specialists | Custom Nibs | Pen Repairs - The Writing Desk

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

263 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

219 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewritingdesk.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 263 ms and then it took 3.4 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

thewritingdesk.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.381

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thewritingdesk.co.uk

263 ms

www.thewritingdesk.co.uk

443 ms

twd_2016.css

347 ms

menu.css

626 ms

twd_web_logo.png

705 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Thewritingdesk.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thewritingdesk.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

607.4 kB

After Optimization

556.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thewritingdesk.co.uk main page is 607.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 575.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 14.1 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 10.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 575.5 kB
  • After minification 550.0 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. The Writing Desk images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 17.4 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Thewritingdesk.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Writing Desk. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thewritingdesk.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

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

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

thewritingdesk.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

SEO Factors

thewritingdesk.co.uk SEO score

89

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thewritingdesk.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 Thewritingdesk.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 Writing Desk. 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: