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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

surfcams.co.uk

Surf webcams and surfcams in the UK and Ireland • 116 UK surfcams listed

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

98 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Surfcams.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

surfcams.co.uk performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

surfcams.co.uk

345 ms

www.surfcams.co.uk

513 ms

style.css

335 ms

adsbygoogle.js

51 ms

jquery.min.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Surfcams.co.uk, 8% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (596 ms) belongs to the original domain Surfcams.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.5 kB (7%)

Content Size

319.0 kB

After Optimization

295.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Surfcams.co.uk main page is 319.0 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. Images take 175.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 13.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 175.9 kB
  • After minification 170.2 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. Surf Cams images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 120.7 kB
  • After minification 120.6 kB
  • After compression 116.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 555 B

  • Original 3.8 kB
  • After minification 3.8 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. Surfcams.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 555 B or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (30%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Surf Cams. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

surfcams.co.uk

surfcams.co.uk

345 ms

www.surfcams.co.uk

www.surfcams.co.uk

513 ms

style.css

style.css

335 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

51 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

22 ms

surfcams-logo.png

surfcams-logo.png

333 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

333 ms

ads.js

ads.js

332 ms

brighton-east-webcam.jpg

brighton-east-webcam.jpg

596 ms

map.gif

map.gif

527 ms

flood-warnings-icon.png

flood-warnings-icon.png

525 ms

matomo.js

matomo.js

593 ms

Accessibility Review

surfcams.co.uk accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

surfcams.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

surfcams.co.uk SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Surfcams.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 Surfcams.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

surfcams.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Surf Cams. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: