Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

heronmill.org

Heron Corn Mill | Beetham | Milnthorpe | Cumbria | Hydro | Art | Education | Shop

Page Load Speed

8.2 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

382 ms

heronmill.org screenshot

About Website

Visit heronmill.org now to see the best up-to-date Heron Mill content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about heronmill.org

Heron Corn Mill a working mill on the River Bela in Beetham, South Cumbria has been a base for local industry powered by renewable energy for over 900 years

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heronmill.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 7 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

heronmill.org performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.heronmill.org

1235 ms

allcss.min.css

16 ms

respond.min.js

31 ms

all.js

20 ms

style.min.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Heronmill.org, 6% (5 requests) were made to Scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to Scontent-fra5-2.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Heronmill.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 195.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

6.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Heronmill.org main page is 6.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 96.2 kB

  • Original 118.5 kB
  • After minification 112.4 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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. 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 96.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 45.4 kB

  • Original 6.0 MB
  • After minification 6.0 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. Heron Mill images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 134.6 kB
  • After minification 134.6 kB
  • After compression 114.6 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 19.9 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 34.4 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 52.1 kB
  • After compression 41.8 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. Heronmill.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.4 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (37%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Heron Mill. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

heronmill.org accessibility score

77

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

heronmill.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

heronmill.org SEO score

83

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Heronmill.org 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 Heronmill.org 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 Heron Mill. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: