Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

harvestories.co.uk

Harvestories - audio archives of the rural voices of South West England.

Page Load Speed

693 ms in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

455 ms

Page Rendered

84 ms

harvestories.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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

LISTEN AND RE-LIVE the West Country's rural past. Meet the people, hear their personal recollections and explore their special landscape.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Harvestories.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 539 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

harvestories.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

harvestories.co.uk

154 ms

main.css

54 ms

player.css

52 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

55 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.10.custom.css

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Harvestories.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Maps.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (160 ms) belongs to the original domain Harvestories.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 418.5 kB (47%)

Content Size

884.4 kB

After Optimization

465.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Harvestories.co.uk main page is 884.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 535.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 41.6 kB
  • After minification 41.1 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 30.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 250.7 kB
  • After minification 238.9 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. Harvestories images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 328.0 kB

  • Original 535.6 kB
  • After minification 484.7 kB
  • After compression 207.6 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 328.0 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 56.5 kB
  • After minification 43.7 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. Harvestories.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (58%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Harvestories. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

harvestories.co.uk accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Best Practices

harvestories.co.uk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

harvestories.co.uk SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Harvestories.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 Harvestories.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 description is not detected on the main page of Harvestories. 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: