Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk

The Cambridge Folk Festival | Cambridge Live

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

363 ms

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About Website

Welcome to cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Cambridge Folk Festival best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk

The Cambridge Folk Festival is one of the premier music events in Europe and one of the longest running and most famous folk festivals in the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 2.7 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

cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,630 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk

191 ms

465 ms

css_lQaZfjVpwP_oGNqdtWCSpJT1EMqXdMiU84ekLLxQnc4.css

83 ms

css_pXGPjl7XoWNnincv8_ujHTBiIzNj7ykzL3oKxOrl0HU.css

163 ms

css_Wu8npAzy16WmnnnWKxpexfgsAryolGGaX6yO3GWA5bU.css

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk, 73% (46 requests) were made to Cambridgelivetrust.co.uk and 19% (12 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Cambridgelivetrust.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 667.2 kB (21%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk main page is 3.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 58.2 kB

  • Original 68.0 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.0 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 58.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 120.0 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Cambridge Folk Festival images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 363.7 kB

  • Original 531.0 kB
  • After minification 513.0 kB
  • After compression 167.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 363.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 125.3 kB

  • Original 155.5 kB
  • After minification 153.8 kB
  • After compression 30.2 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. Cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (26%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cambridge Folk Festival. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk accessibility score

80

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Cambridgefolkfestival.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 Cambridgefolkfestival.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 Cambridge Folk Festival. 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: