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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

lesleywaters.com

Cookery School - Lesley Waters - Cookery Courses & Information

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

872 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

123 ms

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About Website

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Lesley Waters Cookery School - Well known for her regular television appearances on Ready Steady Cook, Great Food Live and This Morning, Lesley is also a former Head Tutor of Leith's School of Food & ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lesleywaters.com page load time and found that the first response time was 872 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lesleywaters.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lesleywaters.com

872 ms

style.css

99 ms

script.js

196 ms

style.css

289 ms

jquery.js

578 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Lesleywaters.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (872 ms) belongs to the original domain Lesleywaters.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

709.3 kB

After Optimization

640.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lesleywaters.com main page is 709.3 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. Images take 598.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 3.2 kB, which is 12% 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 22.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 598.3 kB
  • After minification 570.2 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. Lesley Waters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 81.3 kB
  • After minification 81.1 kB
  • After compression 63.6 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 17.7 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 712 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Lesleywaters.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 712 B or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (25%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lesley Waters. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lesleywaters.com

lesleywaters.com

872 ms

style.css

style.css

99 ms

script.js

script.js

196 ms

style.css

style.css

289 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

578 ms

wowslider.js

wowslider.js

451 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

40 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

50 ms

script.js

script.js

459 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

21 ms

back-dn.gif

back-dn.gif

320 ms

logo1-dn.gif

logo1-dn.gif

327 ms

logo2-dn.gif

logo2-dn.gif

333 ms

logo3-dn.gif

logo3-dn.gif

344 ms

logo4-dn.gif

logo4-dn.gif

352 ms

logo5-dn.gif

logo5-dn.gif

423 ms

logo6-dn.gif

logo6-dn.gif

428 ms

lw-blue.png

lw-blue.png

91 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

92 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

105 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

91 ms

signup2.gif

signup2.gif

119 ms

go2.gif

go2.gif

126 ms

basket2.gif

basket2.gif

178 ms

lesley-waters.jpg

lesley-waters.jpg

275 ms

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extra97.jpg

280 ms

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extra98.jpg

317 ms

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320 ms

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extra80.jpg

438 ms

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442 ms

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538 ms

extra83.jpg

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551 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

428 ms

282-1.jpg

282-1.jpg

433 ms

course-details1.gif

course-details1.gif

553 ms

sml-booknow.png

sml-booknow.png

552 ms

309-1.jpg

309-1.jpg

541 ms

course-details2.gif

course-details2.gif

532 ms

48-1.jpg

48-1.jpg

623 ms

lw-tm.gif

lw-tm.gif

625 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

58 ms

Accessibility Review

lesleywaters.com accessibility score

75

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

lesleywaters.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

lesleywaters.com SEO score

62

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lesleywaters.com 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 Lesleywaters.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

lesleywaters.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lesley Waters. 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: