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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

explorerdome.co.uk

Explorer Dome: Hands On Science Shows Brought to You

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

310 ms

explorerdome.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Explorer Dome content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about explorerdome.co.uk

Exciting, lively, interactive, Hands-On Science shows for all ages and abilities, all inside a mobile planetarium dome! Based in the South West but travelling across the UK.

Visit explorerdome.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Explorerdome.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

explorerdome.co.uk performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.18

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

explorerdome.co.uk

190 ms

explorerdome.co.uk

344 ms

settings.css

88 ms

bootstrap.min.css

264 ms

superfish.css

259 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Explorerdome.co.uk, 11% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Explorerdome.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.7 kB (2%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Explorerdome.co.uk main page is 4.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 40.6 kB
  • After minification 31.3 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 9.3 kB, which is 23% 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 34.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 58.2 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Explorer Dome images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 103.5 kB
  • After minification 103.5 kB
  • After compression 101.3 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

-13%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 54.7 kB
  • After minification 54.7 kB
  • After compression 47.4 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. Explorerdome.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.3 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (48%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explorer Dome. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

explorerdome.co.uk

explorerdome.co.uk

190 ms

explorerdome.co.uk

explorerdome.co.uk

344 ms

settings.css

settings.css

88 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

264 ms

superfish.css

superfish.css

259 ms

style.css

style.css

260 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

341 ms

slide_1.jpg

slide_1.jpg

665 ms

slide_3.jpg

slide_3.jpg

754 ms

slide_8.jpg

slide_8.jpg

864 ms

slide_9.jpg

slide_9.jpg

760 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

421 ms

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

433 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

467 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

524 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

554 ms

retina.min.js

retina.min.js

624 ms

validate.js

validate.js

653 ms

jquery.placeholder.js

jquery.placeholder.js

718 ms

functions.js

functions.js

738 ms

classie.js

classie.js

752 ms

uisearch.js

uisearch.js

808 ms

show_sen_space.jpg

show_sen_space.jpg

1150 ms

show_light_ks2.jpg

show_light_ks2.jpg

862 ms

show_bubble_ks3.jpg

show_bubble_ks3.jpg

921 ms

show_body_ks3.jpg

show_body_ks3.jpg

886 ms

testimonial_1.jpg

testimonial_1.jpg

894 ms

testimonial_2.jpg

testimonial_2.jpg

917 ms

testimonial_5.jpg

testimonial_5.jpg

945 ms

css

css

23 ms

css

css

39 ms

css

css

40 ms

css

css

46 ms

css

css

43 ms

logo_strip.png

logo_strip.png

632 ms

timer.png

timer.png

633 ms

bg_sub-header_2.png

bg_sub-header_2.png

653 ms

top_divider_black.png

top_divider_black.png

671 ms

users_bg.jpg

users_bg.jpg

689 ms

font

font

12 ms

fontello.woff

fontello.woff

652 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

224 ms

large_left.png

large_left.png

234 ms

large_right.png

large_right.png

261 ms

Accessibility Review

explorerdome.co.uk accessibility score

75

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

explorerdome.co.uk best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

explorerdome.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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

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 Explorerdome.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 Explorerdome.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

explorerdome.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Explorer Dome. 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: