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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

switchmedia.com

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Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

431 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

132 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Switchmedia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 431 ms and then it took 2 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

switchmedia.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,510 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.switchmedia.co.uk

431 ms

jquery-1.2.6.js

459 ms

slides.js

187 ms

jquery.example.js

181 ms

cufon-yui.js

273 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Switchmedia.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (595 ms) relates to the external source Switchmedia.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 218.8 kB (65%)

Content Size

334.5 kB

After Optimization

115.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Switchmedia.com main page is 334.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 197.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 4.6 kB, which is 21% 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 17.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 65.5 kB
  • After minification 48.1 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. Obviously, Switchmedia needs image optimization as it can save up to 17.5 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 140.1 kB

  • Original 197.0 kB
  • After minification 142.3 kB
  • After compression 56.9 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 140.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Switchmedia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (23%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Switchmedia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.switchmedia.co.uk

www.switchmedia.co.uk

431 ms

jquery-1.2.6.js

jquery-1.2.6.js

459 ms

slides.js

slides.js

187 ms

jquery.example.js

jquery.example.js

181 ms

cufon-yui.js

cufon-yui.js

273 ms

HelveticaNeueLT_Std_700.font.js

HelveticaNeueLT_Std_700.font.js

379 ms

global.css

global.css

98 ms

indexArrows.css

indexArrows.css

96 ms

footer.css

footer.css

93 ms

index.css

index.css

99 ms

nav.css

nav.css

99 ms

ga.js

ga.js

20 ms

topRepeat.jpg

topRepeat.jpg

93 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

92 ms

clientLogin.gif

clientLogin.gif

94 ms

clientSearch.gif

clientSearch.gif

95 ms

creativeSolutions.gif

creativeSolutions.gif

95 ms

powered-icon.gif

powered-icon.gif

94 ms

switch-start.png

switch-start.png

182 ms

switch-standard.png

switch-standard.png

185 ms

switch-business.png

switch-business.png

184 ms

business-pro.png

business-pro.png

187 ms

need-help.png

need-help.png

274 ms

go-button.gif

go-button.gif

186 ms

review-centre-logo.png

review-centre-logo.png

400 ms

greylineV.jpg

greylineV.jpg

387 ms

searchdomain.gif

searchdomain.gif

260 ms

readmoreAqua.jpg

readmoreAqua.jpg

349 ms

search-names.gif

search-names.gif

263 ms

login1.gif

login1.gif

350 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

greenlineH.jpg

greenlineH.jpg

329 ms

op1.gif

op1.gif

507 ms

findoutmore.png

findoutmore.png

418 ms

op2.gif

op2.gif

506 ms

op3.gif

op3.gif

421 ms

op4.gif

op4.gif

541 ms

op5.gif

op5.gif

454 ms

codomain.gif

codomain.gif

595 ms

5stars.png

5stars.png

506 ms

Accessibility Review

switchmedia.com accessibility score

60

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

switchmedia.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

switchmedia.com SEO score

75

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Switchmedia.com 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 Switchmedia.com 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

switchmedia.com

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