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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

nichelocal.co.uk

Niche Local :: Welcome to our Local Business Directory v2.0

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

405 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

84 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nichelocal.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 405 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nichelocal.co.uk performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nichelocal.co.uk

405 ms

style.css

181 ms

search.js

216 ms

preload.js

262 ms

niche_yellow_2.jpg

228 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Nichelocal.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (716 ms) belongs to the original domain Nichelocal.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

102.7 kB

After Optimization

87.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nichelocal.co.uk main page is 102.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 67.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.0 kB, which is 30% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 12.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 67.4 kB
  • After minification 65.7 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. Niche Local images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 528 B

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 305 B

  • Original 633 B
  • After minification 633 B
  • After compression 328 B

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. Nichelocal.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 305 B or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Niche Local. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

nichelocal.co.uk

nichelocal.co.uk

405 ms

style.css

style.css

181 ms

search.js

search.js

216 ms

preload.js

preload.js

262 ms

niche_yellow_2.jpg

niche_yellow_2.jpg

228 ms

niche_yellow_search2.jpg

niche_yellow_search2.jpg

161 ms

niche_menu.gif

niche_menu.gif

110 ms

niche_v2_19.jpg

niche_v2_19.jpg

211 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

215 ms

google.jpg

google.jpg

320 ms

yahoo.gif

yahoo.gif

219 ms

msn.gif

msn.gif

329 ms

altavista.gif

altavista.gif

315 ms

lycos.jpg

lycos.jpg

323 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

home_over.jpg

home_over.jpg

716 ms

about_over.jpg

about_over.jpg

179 ms

servies_over.jpg

servies_over.jpg

117 ms

privilege_over.jpg

privilege_over.jpg

118 ms

trade_over.jpg

trade_over.jpg

108 ms

join_us_over.jpg

join_us_over.jpg

119 ms

local_over.jpg

local_over.jpg

212 ms

contact_over.jpg

contact_over.jpg

225 ms

Accessibility Review

nichelocal.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

nichelocal.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

SEO Factors

nichelocal.co.uk SEO score

62

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

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • 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 Nichelocal.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Nichelocal.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

nichelocal.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Niche Local. 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: