Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

muchhadhamforge.co.uk

Much Hadham Forge | The website of Richard Maynard, Artist Blacksmith at the Much Hadham Forge Museum

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

699 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

muchhadhamforge.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to muchhadhamforge.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Much Hadham Forge best content right away, or after learning these important things about muchhadhamforge.co.uk

The website of Richard Maynard, Artist Blacksmith at Much Hadham Forge and home of The Forge Experience - be a blacksmith for a day

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Key Findings

We analyzed Muchhadhamforge.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 699 ms and then it took 4.2 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

muchhadhamforge.co.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.muchhadhamforge.co.uk

699 ms

style.css

279 ms

style.min.css

289 ms

swfobject.js

280 ms

jquery.js

391 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Muchhadhamforge.co.uk, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (699 ms) belongs to the original domain Muchhadhamforge.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

258.3 kB

After Optimization

228.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Muchhadhamforge.co.uk main page is 258.3 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 115.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 20.0 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 15.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 232 B

  • Original 115.6 kB
  • After minification 115.3 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. Much Hadham Forge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 70.6 kB
  • After minification 70.6 kB
  • After compression 64.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 51.4 kB
  • After minification 51.4 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. Muchhadhamforge.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (59%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Much Hadham Forge. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

muchhadhamforge.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

muchhadhamforge.co.uk best practices score

75

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

muchhadhamforge.co.uk SEO score

71

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

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 Muchhadhamforge.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 Muchhadhamforge.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 description is not detected on the main page of Much Hadham Forge. 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: