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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

canalmuseum.org.uk

London Canal Museum Home Page

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

263 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

121 ms

canalmuseum.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Canal Museum content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about canalmuseum.org.uk

London Canal Museum, the London waterways museum telling the story of canals, boats, the ice trade, and ice cream. The only London Museum of inland waterways.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canalmuseum.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 263 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canalmuseum.org.uk performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

canalmuseum.org.uk

263 ms

canalmuseum.org.uk

337 ms

widgets.js

25 ms

lcmmobile.css

77 ms

lcmtablet.css

152 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 Canalmuseum.org.uk, 10% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (661 ms) belongs to the original domain Canalmuseum.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

330.4 kB

After Optimization

303.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Canalmuseum.org.uk main page is 330.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 305.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 15.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 305.3 kB
  • After minification 294.7 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. Canal Museum images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 487 B

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Canalmuseum.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 487 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (18%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canal Museum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

canalmuseum.org.uk

canalmuseum.org.uk

263 ms

canalmuseum.org.uk

canalmuseum.org.uk

337 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

25 ms

lcmmobile.css

lcmmobile.css

77 ms

lcmtablet.css

lcmtablet.css

152 ms

lcmdesktop.css

lcmdesktop.css

227 ms

menustyle.css

menustyle.css

228 ms

flags.gif

flags.gif

232 ms

flagital.gif

flagital.gif

250 ms

flagger.gif

flagger.gif

254 ms

flagfran.gif

flagfran.gif

254 ms

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28361883

181 ms

like.php

like.php

155 ms

visit.jpg

visit.jpg

368 ms

venuehire.jpg

venuehire.jpg

368 ms

learning.jpg

learning.jpg

369 ms

boattrips.jpg

boattrips.jpg

491 ms

whatson.jpg

whatson.jpg

414 ms

history.jpg

history.jpg

416 ms

pictureshop.jpg

pictureshop.jpg

443 ms

icewellcam.jpg

icewellcam.jpg

444 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

443 ms

foursquare.png

foursquare.png

497 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

498 ms

yelp.png

yelp.png

518 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

518 ms

londonpass.png

londonpass.png

519 ms

wifizone.png

wifizone.png

575 ms

gtbssilver.jpg

gtbssilver.jpg

661 ms

lcmlogo.png

lcmlogo.png

581 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

21 ms

settings

settings

99 ms

9RkfBY4NJsx.js

9RkfBY4NJsx.js

29 ms

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28 ms

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

2 ms

embeds

embeds

30 ms

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

27 ms

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61 ms

9RkfBY4NJsx.js

9RkfBY4NJsx.js

19 ms

mainbk.png

mainbk.png

368 ms

print2.css

print2.css

76 ms

Accessibility Review

canalmuseum.org.uk accessibility score

80

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

canalmuseum.org.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

canalmuseum.org.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    ISO-8859-1

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

canalmuseum.org.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Canal Museum. 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: