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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

stamp-collector.co.uk

Stamp collector, the stamp collecting resource for people who are serious about philately

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

431 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

234 ms

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About Website

Welcome to stamp-collector.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Stamp Collector best content right away, or after learning these important things about stamp-collector.co.uk

Although we specialise in GB Machins we can also supply a superb selection of Worldwide Stamps, available from stock, in the following categories; All reigns, Definitive Sets, Commemorative, Commemora...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stamp-collector.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 431 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stamp-collector.co.uk performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stamp-collector.co.uk

431 ms

stylesheet.css

333 ms

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

338 ms

1stMill_Examp_01.jpg

468 ms

EnschedeExample_01.jpg

463 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Stamp-collector.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (818 ms) belongs to the original domain Stamp-collector.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stamp-collector.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 39.6 kB
  • After minification 34.4 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 5.2 kB, which is 13% 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 33.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 119.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Stamp Collector images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Stamp-collector.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (25%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stamp Collector. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stamp-collector.co.uk

stamp-collector.co.uk

431 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

333 ms

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

338 ms

1stMill_Examp_01.jpg

1stMill_Examp_01.jpg

468 ms

EnschedeExample_01.jpg

EnschedeExample_01.jpg

463 ms

Example%20Page%20-%20Title.jpg

Example%20Page%20-%20Title.jpg

395 ms

gb0644.jpg

gb0644.jpg

401 ms

460.jpg

460.jpg

487 ms

GB_1847%2010d%20Brown.jpg

GB_1847%2010d%20Brown.jpg

410 ms

Image_comm_small.jpg

Image_comm_small.jpg

453 ms

Page%201.jpg

Page%201.jpg

537 ms

2010%20London%20Exhibition%20Machin%20MS.jpg

2010%20London%20Exhibition%20Machin%20MS.jpg

547 ms

2010%20D599%20-%20MS3073%20Benham%20Machin%20FDC.png

2010%20D599%20-%20MS3073%20Benham%20Machin%20FDC.png

818 ms

$1964%20Homage%20to%20JFK%20Private%20SS.jpg

$1964%20Homage%20to%20JFK%20Private%20SS.jpg

671 ms

2022%20$$1p-$1%20(W)%20SBP2i%20Low%20and%20Med%20Set%20B-Code-sml.jpg

2022%20$$1p-$1%20(W)%20SBP2i%20Low%20and%20Med%20Set%20B-Code-sml.jpg

532 ms

2003%20$10%20Postal%20Order%20PP.jpg

2003%20$10%20Postal%20Order%20PP.jpg

625 ms

stars_5.gif

stars_5.gif

601 ms

icon.gif

icon.gif

603 ms

tile_back.gif

tile_back.gif

311 ms

stamp-collector-logo.jpg

stamp-collector-logo.jpg

376 ms

print_stylesheet.css

print_stylesheet.css

82 ms

Accessibility Review

stamp-collector.co.uk accessibility score

78

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

stamp-collector.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

SEO Factors

stamp-collector.co.uk SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Stamp-collector.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 Stamp-collector.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

stamp-collector.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Stamp Collector. 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: