Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

hertsatwar.co.uk

Herts at War - a community led project to commemorate the diverse experiences of Hertfordshire during the First World War.

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

402 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

304 ms

hertsatwar.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit hertsatwar.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Herts At War content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hertsatwar.co.uk

The project aims to uncover the untold stories of the county's men and women, both on the fighting front and the home front, and commemorate these individuals a century on from the conflict.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hertsatwar.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 402 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hertsatwar.co.uk performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.16

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hertsatwar.co.uk

402 ms

js

68 ms

css

25 ms

font-awesome.min.css

23 ms

superlist.css

374 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Hertsatwar.co.uk, 13% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (453 ms) belongs to the original domain Hertsatwar.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

977.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Hertsatwar.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 685.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 35.1 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 11.9 kB, which is 25% 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 37.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 685.0 kB
  • After minification 648.8 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. Herts At War images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 301.9 kB
  • After minification 301.9 kB
  • After compression 278.5 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

-42%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 69.9 kB
  • After minification 69.9 kB
  • After compression 40.8 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. Hertsatwar.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.1 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (60%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herts At War. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hertsatwar.co.uk accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

hertsatwar.co.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hertsatwar.co.uk SEO score

85

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

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 Hertsatwar.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 Hertsatwar.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 Herts At War. 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: