Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

bedfordshirelive.co.uk

Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire Live

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

150 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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About Website

Visit bedfordshirelive.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Bedfordshire Live content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bedfordshirelive.co.uk

Bedfordshire is bordered by Cambridgeshire to the north-east, with Bedford as the county town. Other towns include Luton, which is the largest, as well as Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable and Biggleswade. ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bedfordshirelive.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 150 ms and then it took 3.2 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

bedfordshirelive.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,000 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.197

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bedfordshirelive.co.uk

150 ms

www.bedfordshirelive.co.uk

81 ms

bedfordshire

411 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

34 ms

choice.js

429 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Bedfordshirelive.co.uk, 56% (23 requests) were made to S2-prod.cambridge-news.co.uk and 5% (2 requests) were made to Cambridge-news.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (429 ms) relates to the external source Cmp.inmobi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 370.6 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

956.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Bedfordshirelive.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 839.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 346.8 kB

  • Original 405.3 kB
  • After minification 404.6 kB
  • After compression 58.5 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 346.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 28.5 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. Obviously, Bedfordshire Live needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 839.8 kB
  • After minification 839.8 kB
  • After compression 823.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 47.0 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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. Bedfordshirelive.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (83%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bedfordshire Live. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bedfordshirelive.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

bedfordshirelive.co.uk best practices score

75

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

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

bedfordshirelive.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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 Bedfordshirelive.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 Bedfordshirelive.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 data is detected on the main page of Bedfordshire Live. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: