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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

brucelawson.co.uk

Bruce Lawson's personal site

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

573 ms

brucelawson.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to brucelawson.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Bruce Lawson best content for India right away, or after learning these important things about brucelawson.co.uk

Bruce Lawson's blog, focussing on web accessibility, web standards, travellers tales, and music

Visit brucelawson.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Brucelawson.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brucelawson.co.uk performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,640 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brucelawson.co.uk

172 ms

brucelawson.co.uk

406 ms

style.css

79 ms

style.min.css

157 ms

yt-responsive.css

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Brucelawson.co.uk, 15% (6 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (513 ms) belongs to the original domain Brucelawson.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 110.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

687.2 kB

After Optimization

576.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brucelawson.co.uk main page is 687.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 283.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 49.8 kB

  • Original 74.0 kB
  • After minification 71.0 kB
  • After compression 24.2 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 49.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 283.0 kB
  • After minification 242.5 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, Bruce Lawson needs image optimization as it can save up to 40.5 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 240.8 kB
  • After minification 240.8 kB
  • After compression 228.3 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 89.4 kB
  • After minification 89.4 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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. Brucelawson.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (44%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bruce Lawson. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

brucelawson.co.uk

brucelawson.co.uk

172 ms

brucelawson.co.uk

brucelawson.co.uk

406 ms

style.css

style.css

79 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

157 ms

yt-responsive.css

yt-responsive.css

234 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

mediaelementplayer.min.css

235 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

237 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

238 ms

js_quicktags.js

js_quicktags.js

397 ms

comment_quicktags_plus.php

comment_quicktags_plus.php

321 ms

utilities.js

utilities.js

310 ms

yt-responsive.min.js

yt-responsive.min.js

310 ms

superpwa-register-sw.min.js

superpwa-register-sw.min.js

311 ms

siteground-optimizer-combined-js-a6091dda721cc1eed19ea0bc06716df6.js

siteground-optimizer-combined-js-a6091dda721cc1eed19ea0bc06716df6.js

312 ms

bl10.jpg

bl10.jpg

97 ms

FT.png

FT.png

513 ms

iANAL.jpg

iANAL.jpg

98 ms

PWA-iOS174B2.jpg

PWA-iOS174B2.jpg

157 ms

ga.js

ga.js

19 ms

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-NbG7tGtWCc

129 ms

FawpRO6q4FM

FawpRO6q4FM

469 ms

bruce-logo.jpg

bruce-logo.jpg

79 ms

nav_home.jpg

nav_home.jpg

78 ms

music.jpg

music.jpg

135 ms

writing.jpg

writing.jpg

179 ms

about.jpg

about.jpg

326 ms

email.jpg

email.jpg

327 ms

torn-paper.svg

torn-paper.svg

414 ms

twulture.gif

twulture.gif

414 ms

openquote.gif

openquote.gif

415 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

demand.ttf

demand.ttf

413 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

13 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

32 ms

base.js

base.js

58 ms

jRYISRuM9q7e_xyYaLp_fsq3qnLjbNevd8JDa-bOkpI.js

jRYISRuM9q7e_xyYaLp_fsq3qnLjbNevd8JDa-bOkpI.js

188 ms

embed.js

embed.js

151 ms

print.css

print.css

220 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

125 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

125 ms

Create

Create

206 ms

Accessibility Review

brucelawson.co.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

brucelawson.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

brucelawson.co.uk SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Brucelawson.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 Brucelawson.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

brucelawson.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bruce Lawson. 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: