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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

firstsite.uk

Exhibitions, Art, Films, Events and Venue Hire | Firstsite

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

3.9 sec

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About Website

Welcome to firstsite.uk homepage info - get ready to check Firstsite best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about firstsite.uk

The perfect blend of visual art, exhibitions, films, events and food and drink - from a truly unique venue in Colchester. Visit today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstsite.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstsite.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,210 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstsite.uk

129 ms

firstsite.uk

668 ms

gtp0btk.css

114 ms

js

107 ms

style.min.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 157 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (133 requests) were addressed to the original Firstsite.uk, 3% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Webcomponents.spektrix.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (774 ms) belongs to the original domain Firstsite.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (6%)

Content Size

21.9 MB

After Optimization

20.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firstsite.uk main page is 21.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 20.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 135.9 kB

  • Original 163.3 kB
  • After minification 136.7 kB
  • After compression 27.4 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 26.6 kB, which is 16% 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 135.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 916.6 kB

  • Original 20.8 MB
  • After minification 19.9 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. Firstsite images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 176.7 kB

  • Original 733.4 kB
  • After minification 733.3 kB
  • After compression 556.7 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 176.7 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 207.4 kB
  • After minification 207.4 kB
  • After compression 205.7 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. Firstsite.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (50%)

Requests Now

147

After Optimization

73

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 147 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firstsite. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

firstsite.uk accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[role] values are not valid

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

firstsite.uk best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

firstsite.uk SEO score

84

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

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 Firstsite.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 Firstsite.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

firstsite.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Firstsite. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: