Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% 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

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

speakbrother.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

948 ms

Page Rendered

144 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Speakbrother.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

speakbrother.co.uk performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.425

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

speakbrother.co.uk

148 ms

home

83 ms

scripts.js

345 ms

styles.css

354 ms

embed.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Speakbrother.co.uk, 15% (2 requests) were made to Downloads.mailchimp.com and 15% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (354 ms) belongs to the original domain Speakbrother.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 227.9 kB (40%)

Content Size

573.6 kB

After Optimization

345.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Speakbrother.co.uk main page is 573.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 249.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 5.1 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 3.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 55 B

  • Original 186.6 kB
  • After minification 186.5 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. Speak Brother images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 114.9 kB

  • Original 249.9 kB
  • After minification 249.9 kB
  • After compression 135.0 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 114.9 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 109.7 kB

  • Original 131.8 kB
  • After minification 131.4 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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. Speakbrother.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (38%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Speak Brother. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

speakbrother.co.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

speakbrother.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

SEO Factors

speakbrother.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Speakbrother.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 Speakbrother.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 Speak Brother. 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: