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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

solarpoweredhome.co.uk

DIY Solar Powered Home - A realtime solar power monitor using the EpSolar Tracer and a Raspberry Pi

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

381 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit solarpoweredhome.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Solar Powered Home content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about solarpoweredhome.co.uk

A small-scale DIY renewable energy project comprised of solar panels which power the entire lighting inside a home

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solarpoweredhome.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 381 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

solarpoweredhome.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solarpoweredhome.co.uk

381 ms

style.css

170 ms

weather.css

171 ms

prettyPhoto.css

172 ms

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

252 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Solarpoweredhome.co.uk, 10% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Solarpoweredhome.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Solarpoweredhome.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 50.5 kB

  • Original 66.8 kB
  • After minification 63.1 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 50.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Solar Powered Home images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 221.6 kB
  • After minification 220.8 kB
  • After compression 216.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 510 B

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 66.3 kB
  • After compression 65.8 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. Solarpoweredhome.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (38%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar Powered Home. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

solarpoweredhome.co.uk

solarpoweredhome.co.uk

381 ms

style.css

style.css

170 ms

weather.css

weather.css

171 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

172 ms

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

252 ms

jquery.simpleWeather.min.js

jquery.simpleWeather.min.js

168 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

170 ms

shCore.js

shCore.js

330 ms

shBrushPython.js

shBrushPython.js

327 ms

shBrushPhp.js

shBrushPhp.js

328 ms

shBrushJScript.js

shBrushJScript.js

328 ms

shCoreDefault.css

shCoreDefault.css

329 ms

newbg.jpg

newbg.jpg

873 ms

error.png

error.png

177 ms

solar1-thumb.jpg

solar1-thumb.jpg

177 ms

solar2-thumb.jpg

solar2-thumb.jpg

178 ms

spiritlevel-thumb.jpg

spiritlevel-thumb.jpg

504 ms

backpanels-thumb.JPG

backpanels-thumb.JPG

177 ms

garageroof-thumb.jpg

garageroof-thumb.jpg

556 ms

chargerandbatteries-thumb.jpg

chargerandbatteries-thumb.jpg

556 ms

chargescreen-thumb.jpg

chargescreen-thumb.jpg

504 ms

batteries-thumb.jpg

batteries-thumb.jpg

556 ms

schematic-thumb.jpg

schematic-thumb.jpg

556 ms

fullview-thumb.jpg

fullview-thumb.jpg

737 ms

relay-thumb.JPG

relay-thumb.JPG

870 ms

bulbs-thumb.jpg

bulbs-thumb.jpg

739 ms

frontview-thumb.jpg

frontview-thumb.jpg

869 ms

rj45usb.png

rj45usb.png

871 ms

currentsensor-thumb.jpg

currentsensor-thumb.jpg

871 ms

pi-thumb.jpg

pi-thumb.jpg

871 ms

piwindow-thumb.jpg

piwindow-thumb.jpg

915 ms

database-thumb.jpg

database-thumb.jpg

915 ms

camfront-thumb.jpg

camfront-thumb.jpg

982 ms

cambracket-thumb.jpg

cambracket-thumb.jpg

991 ms

camroof-thumb.jpg

camroof-thumb.jpg

995 ms

logo.png

logo.png

1071 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

22 ms

VbuuWF7GSSM

VbuuWF7GSSM

128 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

33 ms

yql

yql

467 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

8 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

6 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

29 ms

base.js

base.js

57 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

225 ms

WsXbK1pRbMq5q9MM2Qg4E26D0rL5j6ju-xVNTyhKTHk.js

WsXbK1pRbMq5q9MM2Qg4E26D0rL5j6ju-xVNTyhKTHk.js

161 ms

embed.js

embed.js

58 ms

id

id

38 ms

Create

Create

134 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

17 ms

Accessibility Review

solarpoweredhome.co.uk accessibility score

72

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

solarpoweredhome.co.uk best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

solarpoweredhome.co.uk SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Solarpoweredhome.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 Solarpoweredhome.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

solarpoweredhome.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Solar Powered Home. 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: