Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 33

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

croydonradio.com

Croydon Radio - community radio for the London Borough of Croydon!

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

253 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Croydonradio.com page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 2.6 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

croydonradio.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.637

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

croydonradio.com

276 ms

croydonradio.com

412 ms

public_home.css

159 ms

rotator.css

237 ms

navbar.css

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Croydonradio.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (946 ms) belongs to the original domain Croydonradio.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 232.1 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

992.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Croydonradio.com main page is 1.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 21.6 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.8 kB, which is 13% 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 16.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 186.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 976.4 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, Croydon Radio needs image optimization as it can save up to 186.1 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 8.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 27.1 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. Croydonradio.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (42%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Croydon Radio. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

croydonradio.com accessibility score

33

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

croydonradio.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

croydonradio.com SEO score

50

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

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 Croydonradio.com 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 Croydonradio.com 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 Croydon Radio. 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: