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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

londonsketchfest.com

London Sketchfest The London Sketch Comedy Festival

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

219 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing London Sketchfest content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about londonsketchfest.com

London SketchFest is unique comedy festival dedicated to discovering Britain’s funniest alternative comedy and best sketch comedy. Part of an international series of sketch comedy festivals, it’s a fa...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Londonsketchfest.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

londonsketchfest.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

londonsketchfest.com

39 ms

londonsketchfest.com

57 ms

www.londonsketchfest.com

154 ms

www.londonsketchfest.com

58 ms

style.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Londonsketchfest.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Static.getclicky.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Londonsketchfest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 983.4 kB (41%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Londonsketchfest.com main page is 2.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 28.2 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 3.9 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 26.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 889.9 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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, London Sketchfest needs image optimization as it can save up to 889.9 kB or 42% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 61.2 kB

  • Original 229.3 kB
  • After minification 229.0 kB
  • After compression 168.1 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 61.2 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 55.3 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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. Londonsketchfest.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (45%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of London Sketchfest. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

londonsketchfest.com

londonsketchfest.com

39 ms

londonsketchfest.com

londonsketchfest.com

57 ms

www.londonsketchfest.com

www.londonsketchfest.com

154 ms

www.londonsketchfest.com

www.londonsketchfest.com

58 ms

style.css

style.css

26 ms

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sidenav.css

348 ms

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style.css

301 ms

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317 ms

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animate.css

338 ms

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354 ms

responsive-slider.css

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344 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

984 ms

ccard.js

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1020 ms

validation.js

validation.js

1048 ms

builder.js

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1066 ms

effects.js

effects.js

373 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

1096 ms

controls.js

controls.js

1173 ms

slider.js

slider.js

1461 ms

js.js

js.js

1503 ms

form.js

form.js

1534 ms

translate.js

translate.js

1088 ms

cookies.js

cookies.js

1111 ms

holder.js

holder.js

1747 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

1813 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

1862 ms

sticky.js

sticky.js

2029 ms

sketchfest.js

sketchfest.js

1535 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

2158 ms

modernizr.custom.28468.js

modernizr.custom.28468.js

2151 ms

jquery.cslider.js

jquery.cslider.js

1769 ms

script-ck.js

script-ck.js

2309 ms

lazyload.js

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1837 ms

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162 ms

tweetie.js

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1866 ms

email-decode.min.js

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1864 ms

header-bg.gif

header-bg.gif

436 ms

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54 ms

Sketchfest-web-logo-small.png

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54 ms

ticket.png

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55 ms

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440 ms

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460 ms

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93 ms

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56 ms

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465 ms

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94 ms

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162 ms

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163 ms

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164 ms

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679 ms

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455 ms

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480 ms

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485 ms

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493 ms

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506 ms

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511 ms

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520 ms

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47 ms

red-chevrons.png

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533 ms

arrow-prev.png

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534 ms

arrow-next.png

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545 ms

festival-icon.png

festival-icon.png

568 ms

acts-icon.png

acts-icon.png

555 ms

Image_Icon_2.png

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49 ms

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49 ms

videos-icon.png

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561 ms

forum-icon.png

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568 ms

take-part-icon.png

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924 ms

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590 ms

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546 ms

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870 ms

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578 ms

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10 ms

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12 ms

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571 ms

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576 ms

Accessibility Review

londonsketchfest.com accessibility score

80

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

londonsketchfest.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

londonsketchfest.com SEO score

79

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Londonsketchfest.com 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 Londonsketchfest.com 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

londonsketchfest.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of London Sketchfest. 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: