Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

grahamcarruthers.co.za

Graham Carruthers Photography | Graham Carruthers is a Durban based photographer specialising in wedding photography, portrait photography, editorial ...

Page Load Speed

24.4 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

577 ms

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Graham Carruthers has over 20 years of experience specialising in wedding, portrait, and headshot photography. Based in Surrey, UK, I am willing to travel all over the United Kingdom, Europe, and the ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grahamcarruthers.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 21.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

grahamcarruthers.co.za performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value30.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,090 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.139

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.grahamcarruthers.co.za

2985 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

1299 ms

front.css

2262 ms

style.min.css

1921 ms

view.css

1099 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Grahamcarruthers.co.za, 14% (15 requests) were made to Online.lightbluesoftware.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Grahamcarruthers.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 271.4 kB (2%)

Content Size

11.2 MB

After Optimization

10.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Grahamcarruthers.co.za main page is 11.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 138.0 kB

  • Original 170.7 kB
  • After minification 170.7 kB
  • After compression 32.8 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 138.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 111.2 kB

  • Original 10.3 MB
  • After minification 10.2 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. Graham Carruthers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 652.2 kB
  • After minification 652.1 kB
  • After compression 633.2 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 111.6 kB
  • After minification 109.6 kB
  • After compression 108.3 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. Grahamcarruthers.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (72%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Graham Carruthers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

grahamcarruthers.co.za accessibility score

68

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

grahamcarruthers.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

grahamcarruthers.co.za SEO score

79

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 doesn't use 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 Grahamcarruthers.co.za 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 Grahamcarruthers.co.za 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 data is detected on the main page of Graham Carruthers. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: