Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

greymatter.co.uk

Grey Matter | Cloud, Software and Technical Services

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

437 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greymatter.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greymatter.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greymatter.co.uk

163 ms

greymatter.com

230 ms

greymatter.com

362 ms

all.css

66 ms

2-layout.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Greymatter.co.uk, 65% (30 requests) were made to Greymatter.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Pro.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (920 ms) relates to the external source Cgtforms.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 141.7 kB (26%)

Content Size

538.1 kB

After Optimization

396.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Greymatter.co.uk main page is 538.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 196.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 133.2 kB

  • Original 161.1 kB
  • After minification 155.3 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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 133.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 196.6 kB
  • After minification 196.6 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. Grey Matter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 99.2 kB
  • After minification 99.2 kB
  • After compression 96.1 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 81.2 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 75.8 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. Greymatter.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (66%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grey Matter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

greymatter.co.uk accessibility score

72

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

[role] values are not valid

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

SEO Factors

greymatter.co.uk SEO score

76

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Greymatter.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 Greymatter.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

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