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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

sparrowhawk-island.co.uk

Sparrowhawk Island - Real Sparrowhawks and other wildlife in the wild captured live on web cam - The UK's Number 1 website for Sparrowhawks in the wil...

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

397 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Visit sparrowhawk-island.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Sparrowhawk Island content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sparrowhawk-island.co.uk

Sparrowhawk Island is a website dedicated to capturing live footage of many species of british birds, but mainly the sparrowhawk as it lives in the wild.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sparrowhawk-island.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 397 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sparrowhawk-island.co.uk performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,510 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sparrowhawk-island.co.uk

397 ms

sparrowhawk_global.css

127 ms

pngfix.js

208 ms

btn_buynowCC_LG.gif

274 ms

MnL6oz0W42E

336 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Sparrowhawk-island.co.uk, 17% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Sparrowhawk-island.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 381.1 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sparrowhawk-island.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 26.9 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 20.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Sparrowhawk Island images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 52.7 kB
  • After minification 52.2 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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 25.0 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 323.4 kB

  • Original 382.3 kB
  • After minification 379.8 kB
  • After compression 58.9 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. Sparrowhawk-island.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (15%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sparrowhawk Island. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sparrowhawk-island.co.uk

sparrowhawk-island.co.uk

397 ms

sparrowhawk_global.css

sparrowhawk_global.css

127 ms

pngfix.js

pngfix.js

208 ms

btn_buynowCC_LG.gif

btn_buynowCC_LG.gif

274 ms

MnL6oz0W42E

MnL6oz0W42E

336 ms

0kYtu3mFvMQ

0kYtu3mFvMQ

535 ms

sphawk_bg.jpg

sphawk_bg.jpg

1545 ms

header.png

header.png

205 ms

secret-life-of-the-sparrowhawk-dvd.jpg

secret-life-of-the-sparrowhawk-dvd.jpg

984 ms

secret-life-of-the-sparrowhawk-dvd-pal.jpg

secret-life-of-the-sparrowhawk-dvd-pal.jpg

994 ms

secret-life-of-the-sparrowhawk-dvd-ntsc.jpg

secret-life-of-the-sparrowhawk-dvd-ntsc.jpg

995 ms

secret-life-of-the-tawnyowl-dvd.jpg

secret-life-of-the-tawnyowl-dvd.jpg

995 ms

secret-life-of-the-tawnyowl-dvd-pal.jpg

secret-life-of-the-tawnyowl-dvd-pal.jpg

981 ms

secret-life-of-the-tawnyowl-double-dvd-pal.jpg

secret-life-of-the-tawnyowl-double-dvd-pal.jpg

996 ms

banner_BBC_springwatch.png

banner_BBC_springwatch.png

1003 ms

banner_cams.png

banner_cams.png

997 ms

banner_eco.png

banner_eco.png

1000 ms

page_r1_c1.png

page_r1_c1.png

994 ms

page.gif

page.gif

995 ms

webcam.jpg

webcam.jpg

997 ms

donate.jpg

donate.jpg

998 ms

page_r3_c1.png

page_r3_c1.png

998 ms

footer_r1_c1.png

footer_r1_c1.png

999 ms

page_lrg.gif

page_lrg.gif

1001 ms

view_cam.jpg

view_cam.jpg

1407 ms

2010_cam_birds.jpg

2010_cam_birds.jpg

1407 ms

johnny_kingdom.jpg

johnny_kingdom.jpg

1408 ms

pete_mcmurdie.jpg

pete_mcmurdie.jpg

1372 ms

rupert_smithpsd.jpg

rupert_smithpsd.jpg

1372 ms

simon_king.jpg

simon_king.jpg

1557 ms

banner_spycamtv.jpg

banner_spycamtv.jpg

1556 ms

footer_r3_c1.png

footer_r3_c1.png

1415 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

1417 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

173 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

46 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

99 ms

base.js

base.js

213 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

37 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

530 ms

mRkKEWnL-xyN5Za0N8xt01fqaN4W9u1e2Pe6j7YVmu8.js

mRkKEWnL-xyN5Za0N8xt01fqaN4W9u1e2Pe6j7YVmu8.js

400 ms

embed.js

embed.js

168 ms

id

id

137 ms

Accessibility Review

sparrowhawk-island.co.uk accessibility score

82

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

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

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

sparrowhawk-island.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sparrowhawk-island.co.uk SEO score

67

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

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sparrowhawk-island.co.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 Sparrowhawk-island.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

sparrowhawk-island.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sparrowhawk Island. 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: