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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

wildswimming.co.uk

Wild Swimming - outdoors in rivers, lakes and the sea

Page Load Speed

10.4 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

8.1 sec

Page Rendered

397 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wildswimming.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 8.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wildswimming.co.uk performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,570 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.316

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.wildswimming.co.uk

1894 ms

css

24 ms

style.css

238 ms

style.css

262 ms

style.css

209 ms

Our browser made a total of 203 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (106 requests) were addressed to the original Wildswimming.co.uk, 7% (14 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 6% (12 requests) were made to Sumome-140a.kxcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Wildswimming.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (65%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wildswimming.co.uk main page is 4.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 211.6 kB

  • Original 261.0 kB
  • After minification 247.2 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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 211.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 767.8 kB
  • After minification 701.7 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. Wild Swimming images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 492.6 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 1.1 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 160.0 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. Wildswimming.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 104 (55%)

Requests Now

190

After Optimization

86

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 190 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wild Swimming. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

wildswimming.co.uk accessibility score

72

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

wildswimming.co.uk best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wildswimming.co.uk SEO score

76

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Wildswimming.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 Wildswimming.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 Wild Swimming. 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: