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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

techniquest.org

Techniquest • Cardiff UK • Science Discovery Centre

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

131 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

3 ms

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About Website

Visit techniquest.org now to see the best up-to-date Techniquest content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about techniquest.org

Science Discovery Centre in Cardiff Bay with two floors of hands-on interactive exhibits, a science theatre, planetarium, and a lab.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Techniquest.org page load time and found that the first response time was 131 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

techniquest.org performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,280 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

techniquest.org

131 ms

www.techniquest.org

891 ms

31a8001c-aec6-489a-8eae-a02e2cdcfd60.css

133 ms

style.min.css

110 ms

events-manager.min.css

126 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Techniquest.org, 15% (17 requests) were made to S3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.rawgit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (940 ms) relates to the external source S3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 194.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Techniquest.org main page is 2.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 137.9 kB

  • Original 167.4 kB
  • After minification 155.6 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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 137.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 51.9 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. Techniquest images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 498.3 kB
  • After minification 498.3 kB
  • After compression 493.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (51%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Techniquest. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

techniquest.org

techniquest.org

131 ms

www.techniquest.org

www.techniquest.org

891 ms

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133 ms

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110 ms

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Accessibility Review

techniquest.org accessibility score

89

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

techniquest.org best practices score

83

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

techniquest.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Techniquest.org 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 Techniquest.org 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

techniquest.org

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