Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

simonwhatley.co.uk

Simon Whatley – Service designer, creative technologist and coach

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

simonwhatley.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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My name is Simon Whatley. I’m a service designer, creative technologist, coach, thinker, tinkerer, observer of people, maker of things.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Simonwhatley.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 2.5 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

simonwhatley.co.uk performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

simonwhatley.co.uk

205 ms

www.simonwhatley.co.uk

1609 ms

style.css

75 ms

style-ia3-1.0.2.css

138 ms

style-fancybox-1.3.1.css

223 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Simonwhatley.co.uk, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Simonwhatley.disqus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Simonwhatley.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 189.9 kB (59%)

Content Size

324.2 kB

After Optimization

134.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Simonwhatley.co.uk main page is 324.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 233.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 21.5 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 3.0 kB, which is 14% 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 15.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 837 B

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 8.7 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. Simon Whatley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 137.9 kB

  • Original 233.0 kB
  • After minification 232.7 kB
  • After compression 95.1 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 137.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 60.2 kB
  • After minification 55.8 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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. Simonwhatley.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.4 kB or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (78%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Simon Whatley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

simonwhatley.co.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

simonwhatley.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

SEO Factors

simonwhatley.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Simonwhatley.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 Simonwhatley.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 description is not detected on the main page of Simon Whatley. 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: