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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

physicalcomputing.co.uk

Physical Computing and Maker Education | Ideas and resources relating to physical computing and maker education

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

910 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Physicalcomputing.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.6 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

physicalcomputing.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,420 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

physicalcomputing.co.uk

1242 ms

analytics.js

76 ms

analytics.js

51 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

130 ms

style.min.css

386 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Physicalcomputing.co.uk, 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Physicalcomputing.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 579.6 kB (14%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Physicalcomputing.co.uk main page is 4.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 79.0 kB

  • Original 98.9 kB
  • After minification 95.2 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 79.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 81.0 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Physical Computing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 177.1 kB

  • Original 288.3 kB
  • After minification 287.7 kB
  • After compression 111.2 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 177.1 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 242.4 kB

  • Original 285.7 kB
  • After minification 266.5 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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. Physicalcomputing.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 242.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (66%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Physical Computing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

physicalcomputing.co.uk

physicalcomputing.co.uk

1242 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

76 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

51 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

130 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

386 ms

prism-nord.css

prism-nord.css

201 ms

styles.css

styles.css

202 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

ctf-styles.min.css

299 ms

style.css

style.css

377 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

220 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

32 ms

amarkal.min.css

amarkal.min.css

388 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

387 ms

mivhak.min.css

mivhak.min.css

308 ms

style.php

style.php

391 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

395 ms

js

js

67 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

553 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

466 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

prism.js

prism.js

521 ms

index.js

index.js

433 ms

index.js

index.js

434 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

449 ms

navigation.min.js

navigation.min.js

628 ms

jquery.fitvids.min.js

jquery.fitvids.min.js

627 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.min.js

skip-link-focus-fix.min.js

629 ms

colormag-custom.min.js

colormag-custom.min.js

629 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

707 ms

ace.js

ace.js

80 ms

mivhak.min.js

mivhak.min.js

631 ms

mtli-str-replace.min.js

mtli-str-replace.min.js

630 ms

ctf-scripts.min.js

ctf-scripts.min.js

630 ms

collect

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16 ms

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263 ms

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218 ms

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245 ms

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245 ms

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245 ms

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602 ms

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859 ms

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275 ms

OpenSans-Regular.woff

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403 ms

OpenSans-Medium.woff

OpenSans-Medium.woff

334 ms

OpenSans-Light.woff

OpenSans-Light.woff

377 ms

OpenSans-SemiBold.woff

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426 ms

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OpenSans-Bold.woff

453 ms

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557 ms

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25 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

516 ms

Accessibility Review

physicalcomputing.co.uk accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

physicalcomputing.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

SEO Factors

physicalcomputing.co.uk SEO score

82

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Physicalcomputing.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 Physicalcomputing.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

physicalcomputing.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Physical Computing. 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: