Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

recycleaid.co.uk

Recycleaid The Recycling Directory

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

563 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Recycleaid.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

recycleaid.co.uk performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,600 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.498

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.recycleaid.co.uk

179 ms

font.js

42 ms

css

150 ms

pub.min.js

297 ms

style.min.css

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Recycleaid.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Recycleaid.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 360.1 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Recycleaid.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 828.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 116.7 kB

  • Original 138.0 kB
  • After minification 128.4 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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 116.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 828.6 kB
  • After minification 817.5 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. Recycleaid images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 186.5 kB

  • Original 484.8 kB
  • After minification 484.8 kB
  • After compression 298.2 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 186.5 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 133.3 kB
  • After minification 132.3 kB
  • After compression 87.6 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. Recycleaid.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.8 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (71%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Recycleaid. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

recycleaid.co.uk accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

recycleaid.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

recycleaid.co.uk SEO score

85

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 Recycleaid.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 Recycleaid.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 data is detected on the main page of Recycleaid. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: