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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

newulsterbiography.co.uk

The Dictionary of Ulster Biography

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

406 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

174 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing New Ulster Biography content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about newulsterbiography.co.uk

The Dictionary of Ulster Biography is about people associated with the historic nine counties of Ulster and includes those who were born here, or lived or worked here and who have distinguished themse...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newulsterbiography.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 406 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newulsterbiography.co.uk performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

90/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.28

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newulsterbiography.co.uk

406 ms

include.js

465 ms

stylesheet.css

473 ms

prototype.js

823 ms

scriptaculous.js

475 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Newulsterbiography.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Newulsterbiography.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.6 kB (19%)

Content Size

222.1 kB

After Optimization

179.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Newulsterbiography.co.uk main page is 222.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 110.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 21.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 110.8 kB
  • After minification 107.1 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. New Ulster Biography images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 83.2 kB
  • After compression 66.3 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 17.1 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 275 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Newulsterbiography.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 275 B or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (67%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of New Ulster Biography. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

newulsterbiography.co.uk

newulsterbiography.co.uk

406 ms

include.js

include.js

465 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

473 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

823 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

475 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

576 ms

controls.js

controls.js

582 ms

slider.js

slider.js

647 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

756 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

661 ms

effects.js

effects.js

244 ms

builder.js

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180 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

165 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

171 ms

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172 ms

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183 ms

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184 ms

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194 ms

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328 ms

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343 ms

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372 ms

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503 ms

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531 ms

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547 ms

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565 ms

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660 ms

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668 ms

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681 ms

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702 ms

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706 ms

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750 ms

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834 ms

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859 ms

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8 ms

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18 ms

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1008 ms

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1020 ms

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1045 ms

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1042 ms

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1035 ms

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1077 ms

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1034 ms

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loading.gif

1045 ms

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closelabel.gif

1036 ms

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95 ms

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164 ms

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184 ms

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184 ms

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185 ms

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269 ms

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326 ms

Accessibility Review

newulsterbiography.co.uk accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

newulsterbiography.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

newulsterbiography.co.uk SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Newulsterbiography.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Newulsterbiography.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

newulsterbiography.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of New Ulster Biography. 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: