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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

highergroundcreative.co.uk

Higher Ground | Animation & Video Production Suffolk & London

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

362 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Visit highergroundcreative.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Higher Ground Creative content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about highergroundcreative.co.uk

Animation, creative film & corporate video production company in Suffolk & London, specialising in 2d animation & 3d animation, motion graphics & video content

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Key Findings

We analyzed Highergroundcreative.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 362 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

highergroundcreative.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

highergroundcreative.co.uk

362 ms

bootstrap.min.css

449 ms

style.css

371 ms

prettyPhoto.css

362 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

211 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Highergroundcreative.co.uk, 7% (6 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Highergroundcreative.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (46%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Highergroundcreative.co.uk main page is 3.6 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 38.3 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.4 kB, which is 35% 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 32.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 646.7 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, Higher Ground Creative needs image optimization as it can save up to 646.7 kB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 704.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 924.2 kB
  • After compression 306.7 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 704.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 288.3 kB

  • Original 337.3 kB
  • After minification 315.6 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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. Highergroundcreative.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 288.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (47%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Higher Ground Creative. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

highergroundcreative.co.uk

highergroundcreative.co.uk

362 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

449 ms

style.css

style.css

371 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

362 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

211 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

364 ms

css

css

29 ms

css

css

51 ms

head_logo.png

head_logo.png

216 ms

small_left_screen_2.png

small_left_screen_2.png

750 ms

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small_right_screen_2.png

918 ms

big_screen_2.png

big_screen_2.png

696 ms

HG2_Client_Logos_Big.png

HG2_Client_Logos_Big.png

538 ms

quote1.png

quote1.png

533 ms

quote2.png

quote2.png

555 ms

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84 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

19 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

588 ms

jquery.mb.YTPlayer.js

jquery.mb.YTPlayer.js

664 ms

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

597 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

770 ms

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713 ms

appear.js

appear.js

760 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

793 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

825 ms

isotope.js

isotope.js

890 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

937 ms

jquery.tweet.js

jquery.tweet.js

1363 ms

jquery.cycle.all.js

jquery.cycle.all.js

1199 ms

jquery.maximage.js

jquery.maximage.js

978 ms

sscr.js

sscr.js

994 ms

skrollr.js

skrollr.js

1052 ms

jquery.jigowatt.js

jquery.jigowatt.js

1080 ms

js

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33 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

1090 ms

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portfolio_db.jpg

1130 ms

portfolio_SL.jpg

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1242 ms

portfolio_bnpp.jpg

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1171 ms

portfolio_link.jpg

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1191 ms

portfolio_lb.jpg

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1310 ms

portfolio_os.jpg

portfolio_os.jpg

1360 ms

portfolio_bl.jpg

portfolio_bl.jpg

1347 ms

player.js

player.js

153 ms

player.css

player.css

121 ms

ga.js

ga.js

76 ms

vuid.min.js

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132 ms

__utm.gif

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34 ms

portfolio_vi.jpg

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1305 ms

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1265 ms

color-yellow.css

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1102 ms

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147 ms

pattern.png

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148 ms

responsive-menu.png

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149 ms

logo2.png

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147 ms

separator2.jpg

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392 ms

zoom.png

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284 ms

separator3.jpg

separator3.jpg

506 ms

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286 ms

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ga.js

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bx_loader.gif

89 ms

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common.js

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map.js

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Accessibility Review

highergroundcreative.co.uk accessibility score

70

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

highergroundcreative.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

highergroundcreative.co.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Highergroundcreative.co.uk 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 Highergroundcreative.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

highergroundcreative.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Higher Ground Creative. 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: