Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 45

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

epe-magazine.co.uk

www.epemag.com PE Practical Electronics hobby constructor magazine

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

403 ms

Resources Loaded

994 ms

Page Rendered

226 ms

epe-magazine.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing E PE Magazine content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about epe-magazine.co.uk

Everyday Practical Electronics (EPE) Magazine is both a print and web-delivered electronics and computing hobbyist magazine with free projects for beginners to expert engineers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epe-magazine.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 403 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

epe-magazine.co.uk performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

epe-magazine.co.uk

403 ms

epe-magazine.css

165 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

25 ms

branding.css

7 ms

poweredby_FFFFFF.gif

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Epe-magazine.co.uk, 10% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (478 ms) belongs to the original domain Epe-magazine.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

362.2 kB

After Optimization

330.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Epe-magazine.co.uk main page is 362.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 334.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 1.9 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 10.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 334.2 kB
  • After minification 324.7 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. E PE Magazine images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Epe-magazine.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of E PE Magazine. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

epe-magazine.co.uk accessibility score

45

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

epe-magazine.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

SEO Factors

epe-magazine.co.uk SEO score

58

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Epe-magazine.co.uk 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 Epe-magazine.co.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of E PE Magazine. 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: