Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

life.spectator.co.uk

Spectator Life | The Spectator

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

844 ms

life.spectator.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Life Spectator content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about life.spectator.co.uk

An intelligent mix of culture, style, travel, food and property, as well as where to go and what to see.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Life.spectator.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

life.spectator.co.uk performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,870 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.519

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

life.spectator.co.uk

1188 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

184 ms

core.css

182 ms

e5018712-1817-4428-8eca-5816c8e7b034.css

67 ms

site.min.css

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 144 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Life.spectator.co.uk, 15% (21 requests) were made to Adserver.adtech.de and 5% (7 requests) were made to Sync.teads.tv. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Life.spectator.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 842.2 kB (22%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Life.spectator.co.uk main page is 3.9 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 84.8 kB

  • Original 102.4 kB
  • After minification 92.2 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 84.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 119.1 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Life Spectator images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 570.1 kB

  • Original 828.2 kB
  • After minification 782.9 kB
  • After compression 258.1 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 570.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 68.1 kB

  • Original 80.7 kB
  • After minification 78.2 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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. Life.spectator.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 68.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (48%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

68

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Life Spectator. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

life.spectator.co.uk accessibility score

77

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

life.spectator.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

life.spectator.co.uk SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Life.spectator.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 Life.spectator.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 Life Spectator. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: