Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

photoguild.co.uk

Guild of Photographers | UK Photographers Association

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

186 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

396 ms

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About Website

Welcome to photoguild.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Photo Guild best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about photoguild.co.uk

We are a long established UK based Professional Photographers Association helping Pro and Enthusiast photographers get the most from their cameras.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Photoguild.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 186 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

photoguild.co.uk performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.789

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

photoguild.co.uk

186 ms

photoguild.co.uk

398 ms

site.css

442 ms

lib.site.js

542 ms

site.js

230 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Photoguild.co.uk, 19% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 11% (3 requests) were made to Photoguild-production.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (542 ms) belongs to the original domain Photoguild.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 309.9 kB (32%)

Content Size

973.3 kB

After Optimization

663.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Photoguild.co.uk main page is 973.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 557.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 11.8 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 1.4 kB, which is 12% 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 8.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 557.0 kB
  • After minification 552.9 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. Photo Guild images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 116.5 kB

  • Original 187.9 kB
  • After minification 187.9 kB
  • After compression 71.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 116.5 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 180.9 kB

  • Original 216.6 kB
  • After minification 204.7 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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. Photoguild.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 180.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (16%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Photo Guild. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

photoguild.co.uk accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

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

photoguild.co.uk 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

photoguild.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Photoguild.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 Photoguild.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 Photo Guild. 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: