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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

ricochet.co.uk

Ricochet are one of the UK’s leading TV production ...

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

203 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

124 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ricochet.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 203 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

ricochet.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.612

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ricochet.co.uk

203 ms

ricochet.co.uk

549 ms

gtm.js

49 ms

style.css

293 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

394 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Ricochet.co.uk, 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (975 ms) belongs to the original domain Ricochet.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 315.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ricochet.co.uk main page is 4.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 14.1 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 5.9 kB, which is 29% 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 14.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 218.2 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Ricochet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 88.2 kB
  • After minification 86.8 kB
  • After compression 70.2 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 18.1 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 64.5 kB

  • Original 76.4 kB
  • After minification 57.8 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. Ricochet.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (31%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ricochet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ricochet.co.uk

ricochet.co.uk

203 ms

ricochet.co.uk

ricochet.co.uk

549 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

49 ms

style.css

style.css

293 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

394 ms

shed_ricochet.css

shed_ricochet.css

416 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

16 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

604 ms

main.js

main.js

325 ms

css

css

49 ms

css

css

65 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

46 ms

shed_ricochet_logo.png

shed_ricochet_logo.png

101 ms

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99 ms

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98 ms

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98 ms

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194 ms

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wbitvp-strap.png

306 ms

wb-strap.png

wb-strap.png

306 ms

walltowall.jpg

walltowall.jpg

199 ms

twentytwenty.jpg

twentytwenty.jpg

307 ms

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488 ms

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675 ms

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861 ms

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767 ms

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766 ms

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975 ms

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690 ms

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25 ms

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31 ms

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33 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

14 ms

Accessibility Review

ricochet.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

ricochet.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

ricochet.co.uk SEO score

77

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Ricochet.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 Ricochet.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

ricochet.co.uk

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