Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

naturephotographeroftheyear.com

International photo competition - Nature Photographer of the Year 2023

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

480 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

335 ms

naturephotographeroftheyear.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Naturephotographeroftheyear.com page load time and found that the first response time was 480 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

naturephotographeroftheyear.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

naturephotographeroftheyear.com

480 ms

style-wpzoom-social-icons.css

27 ms

font-awesome.min.css

40 ms

frontend.min.css

71 ms

flatpickr.min.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Naturephotographeroftheyear.com, 18% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Load.sumome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (480 ms) belongs to the original domain Naturephotographeroftheyear.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 474.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Naturephotographeroftheyear.com main page is 6.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 204.9 kB

  • Original 242.7 kB
  • After minification 242.6 kB
  • After compression 37.8 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 204.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 254.0 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. Nature Photographer Of The Year images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 189 B

  • Original 236.6 kB
  • After minification 236.6 kB
  • After compression 236.4 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

-15%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 106.6 kB
  • After minification 91.3 kB
  • After compression 90.9 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. Naturephotographeroftheyear.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.6 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (66%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nature Photographer Of The Year. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

naturephotographeroftheyear.com accessibility score

74

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

naturephotographeroftheyear.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

naturephotographeroftheyear.com SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    NL

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Naturephotographeroftheyear.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Dutch language. Our system also found out that Naturephotographeroftheyear.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Nature Photographer Of The Year. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: