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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 35

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

storyoflondon.com

London's History: Discover its great, strange, seedy and inspired past!

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

331 ms

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About Website

Visit storyoflondon.com now to see the best up-to-date Storyof London content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about storyoflondon.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Storyoflondon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

storyoflondon.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.105

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

storyoflondon.com

57 ms

storyoflondon.com

303 ms

styleNN.css

118 ms

style.css

115 ms

showimages_php.js

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Storyoflondon.com, 2% (1 request) were made to S10.sitemeter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (928 ms) belongs to the original domain Storyoflondon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 98.5 kB (76%)

Content Size

129.9 kB

After Optimization

31.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Storyoflondon.com main page is 129.9 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 111.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 96.7 kB

  • Original 111.6 kB
  • After minification 111.4 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. 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 96.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 15.7 kB
  • After minification 14.4 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. Storyof London images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 390 B

  • Original 2.3 kB
  • After minification 2.3 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 390 B or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 40 B

  • Original 323 B
  • After minification 323 B
  • After compression 283 B

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. Storyoflondon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40 B or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (48%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Storyof London. 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

storyoflondon.com

storyoflondon.com

57 ms

storyoflondon.com

storyoflondon.com

303 ms

styleNN.css

styleNN.css

118 ms

style.css

style.css

115 ms

showimages_php.js

showimages_php.js

108 ms

openwindow_php_hlpfile_.js

openwindow_php_hlpfile_.js

115 ms

counter.js

counter.js

108 ms

threedayfree_ext_iframe.html

threedayfree_ext_iframe.html

127 ms

meter.asp

meter.asp

8 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

123 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

122 ms

headerline.gif

headerline.gif

124 ms

home.gif

home.gif

124 ms

themes.gif

themes.gif

262 ms

downloads.gif

downloads.gif

204 ms

toplight_bg.gif

toplight_bg.gif

210 ms

toplight_left.gif

toplight_left.gif

203 ms

toplight_right.gif

toplight_right.gif

205 ms

account.gif

account.gif

210 ms

submitnews.gif

submitnews.gif

301 ms

topten.gif

topten.gif

301 ms

under_hl.gif

under_hl.gif

317 ms

under_hl_uw.gif

under_hl_uw.gif

313 ms

box_head.gif

box_head.gif

308 ms

box_headline.gif

box_headline.gif

378 ms

box_bg_l.gif

box_bg_l.gif

430 ms

box_bg_r.gif

box_bg_r.gif

418 ms

box_foot.gif

box_foot.gif

561 ms

corner-top-left.gif

corner-top-left.gif

408 ms

bottom_bg.gif

bottom_bg.gif

438 ms

corner-top-right.gif

corner-top-right.gif

473 ms

People.jpg

People.jpg

506 ms

corner_line_left.gif

corner_line_left.gif

677 ms

line_bg.gif

line_bg.gif

685 ms

corner_line_right.gif

corner_line_right.gif

536 ms

friend.gif

friend.gif

570 ms

print.gif

print.gif

606 ms

corner-bottom-left.gif

corner-bottom-left.gif

638 ms

corner-bottom-right.gif

corner-bottom-right.gif

653 ms

Churches.jpg

Churches.jpg

689 ms

Law___Order.jpg

Law___Order.jpg

705 ms

Disasters.jpg

Disasters.jpg

738 ms

Logo_25wht.gif

Logo_25wht.gif

904 ms

logo_uw_bb.gif

logo_uw_bb.gif

928 ms

dayclear.gif

dayclear.gif

833 ms

daycloud.gif

daycloud.gif

677 ms

dayrainshowers.gif

dayrainshowers.gif

691 ms

daypartcloud.gif

daypartcloud.gif

889 ms

windSSE5metric.gif

windSSE5metric.gif

774 ms

windS20metric.gif

windS20metric.gif

720 ms

windSW15metric.gif

windSW15metric.gif

811 ms

windSSW20metric.gif

windSSW20metric.gif

821 ms

windNW10metric.gif

windNW10metric.gif

825 ms

windSE5metric.gif

windSE5metric.gif

833 ms

Accessibility Review

storyoflondon.com accessibility score

35

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

storyoflondon.com best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

storyoflondon.com SEO score

64

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • 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 Storyoflondon.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Storyoflondon.com 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

storyoflondon.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Storyof London. 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: