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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

blog.northshots.com

Northshots Is Now A Part Of Camera Groove • Camera Groove

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

805 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

569 ms

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About Website

Visit blog.northshots.com now to see the best up-to-date Blog Northshots content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blog.northshots.com

Camera Groove, a blog dedicated to the teaching and inspiring of photographers, is announcing the acquisition of the northshots.com domain name (‘Northshots’).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.northshots.com page load time and found that the first response time was 805 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.northshots.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value72.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value103,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value134.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.northshots.com

805 ms

font-awesome.min.css

38 ms

normalize.css

125 ms

style.css

116 ms

popup.css

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.northshots.com, 51% (21 requests) were made to Blog.petercairnsphotography.com and 22% (9 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (805 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.northshots.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 577.1 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

800.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.northshots.com 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 57.0 kB
  • After minification 53.3 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 46.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 334.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 699.0 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. Obviously, Blog Northshots needs image optimization as it can save up to 334.4 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 161.8 kB

  • Original 242.7 kB
  • After minification 206.2 kB
  • After compression 80.8 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 161.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 44.2 kB
  • After minification 34.9 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. Blog.northshots.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (76%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Northshots. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blog.northshots.com

blog.northshots.com

805 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

38 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

125 ms

style.css

style.css

116 ms

popup.css

popup.css

109 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

92 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

104 ms

effects.js

effects.js

117 ms

lightbox-resize.js

lightbox-resize.js

149 ms

conditionizr-4.3.0.min.js

conditionizr-4.3.0.min.js

113 ms

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

163 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

272 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

162 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

154 ms

popup.js

popup.js

197 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

198 ms

slideout.js

slideout.js

230 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

196 ms

css

css

60 ms

ssba.min.js

ssba.min.js

88 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

83 ms

builder.js

builder.js

10 ms

effects.js

effects.js

12 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

20 ms

controls.js

controls.js

24 ms

slider.js

slider.js

32 ms

sound.js

sound.js

31 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

50 ms

logo.png

logo.png

292 ms

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1-800x360.jpg

442 ms

MHA_173026-800x360.jpg

MHA_173026-800x360.jpg

292 ms

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NS-PC-12197188-800x360.jpg

435 ms

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BM-fox-030-800x360.jpg

400 ms

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PCA_14_121110_15-800x360.jpg

353 ms

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277 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

260 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.northshots.com 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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

blog.northshots.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blog.northshots.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blog.northshots.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 Blog.northshots.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

blog.northshots.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blog Northshots. 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: