Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

matthewsparkes.co.uk

Sparkes Creative | Logo & Brand | Web Design | Development | AI

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

860 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Matthewsparkes.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 860 ms 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

matthewsparkes.co.uk performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,300 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.matthewsparkes.co.uk

860 ms

29838.css

312 ms

all.css

35 ms

50437.css

235 ms

jquery.min.js

321 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Matthewsparkes.co.uk, 8% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Matthewsparkes.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

749.7 kB

After Optimization

652.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Matthewsparkes.co.uk main page is 749.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 323.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 93.4 kB

  • Original 113.0 kB
  • After minification 110.6 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. 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 93.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 992 B

  • Original 255.0 kB
  • After minification 254.0 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. Matthew Sparkes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 323.8 kB
  • After minification 323.8 kB
  • After compression 321.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 854 B

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 57.0 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. Matthewsparkes.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (45%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Matthew Sparkes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

matthewsparkes.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

matthewsparkes.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

matthewsparkes.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Matthewsparkes.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 Matthewsparkes.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 data is detected on the main page of Matthew Sparkes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: