Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

sevenstories.org.uk

Home - Seven Stories | The National Centre for Children's Books

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

sevenstories.org.uk screenshot

About Website

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Seven Stories, National Centre for Childrens Books. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sevenstories.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 5.1 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

sevenstories.org.uk performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.451

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sevenstories.org.uk

1846 ms

css

25 ms

default.css

439 ms

print.css

162 ms

WebResource.axd

226 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Sevenstories.org.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Sevenstories.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 892.6 kB (54%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

751.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Sevenstories.org.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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 708.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 64.3 kB

  • Original 78.1 kB
  • After minification 46.2 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 31.9 kB, which is 41% 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 64.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 128.4 kB

  • Original 708.5 kB
  • After minification 580.0 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. Obviously, Seven Stories needs image optimization as it can save up to 128.4 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 536.7 kB

  • Original 670.9 kB
  • After minification 479.8 kB
  • After compression 134.2 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 536.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 163.2 kB

  • Original 186.8 kB
  • After minification 142.0 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. Sevenstories.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 163.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (36%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Seven Stories. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sevenstories.org.uk accessibility score

64

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

sevenstories.org.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

SEO Factors

sevenstories.org.uk SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sevenstories.org.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sevenstories.org.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 Seven Stories. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: