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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

ministryoftype.co.uk

Ministry of Type

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

385 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

853 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ministry Of Type content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ministryoftype.co.uk

The Ministry of Type is a site about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things that inspire me. I am a designer, illustrator and front-end developer with over 20 years experien...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ministryoftype.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 385 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ministryoftype.co.uk performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ministryoftype.co.uk

385 ms

main.css

89 ms

logo.svg

175 ms

responsivelogos.png

316 ms

responsiveicons.png

320 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ministryoftype.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (787 ms) belongs to the original domain Ministryoftype.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ministryoftype.co.uk main page is 1.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 21.3 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 29.1 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 21.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 66.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Ministry Of Type images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 584 B

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Ministryoftype.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 584 B or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ministry Of Type. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

ministryoftype.co.uk

ministryoftype.co.uk

385 ms

main.css

main.css

89 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

175 ms

responsivelogos.png

responsivelogos.png

316 ms

responsiveicons.png

responsiveicons.png

320 ms

ibmsystem360.jpg

ibmsystem360.jpg

450 ms

schusev.jpg

schusev.jpg

669 ms

calligraphic-animals.jpg

calligraphic-animals.jpg

341 ms

flying-cars.jpg

flying-cars.jpg

731 ms

dkng-icon.png

dkng-icon.png

471 ms

flatties.png

flatties.png

479 ms

tolga-girgin.jpg

tolga-girgin.jpg

595 ms

br-logo.png

br-logo.png

533 ms

br-row-1.png

br-row-1.png

629 ms

br-row-2.png

br-row-2.png

638 ms

br-row-3.png

br-row-3.png

697 ms

br-sign.png

br-sign.png

680 ms

untranslatable.png

untranslatable.png

787 ms

SourceSansPro-Regular.woff

SourceSansPro-Regular.woff

497 ms

SourceSansPro-Light.woff

SourceSansPro-Light.woff

453 ms

SourceSansPro-Bold.woff

SourceSansPro-Bold.woff

547 ms

SourceSansPro-It.woff

SourceSansPro-It.woff

559 ms

SourceSansPro-BoldIt.woff

SourceSansPro-BoldIt.woff

522 ms

Accessibility Review

ministryoftype.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

ministryoftype.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

ministryoftype.co.uk SEO score

89

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

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 Ministryoftype.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 Ministryoftype.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

ministryoftype.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ministry Of Type. 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: