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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

theaj.co.uk

Architecture News & Buildings | The Architects' Journal

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theaj.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theaj.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,530 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theaj.co.uk

82 ms

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

354 ms

css

57 ms

style-guide.css

135 ms

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204 ms

Our browser made a total of 181 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theaj.co.uk, 44% (79 requests) were made to Architectsjournal.co.uk and 32% (58 requests) were made to Cdn.rt.emap.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.rt.emap.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 478.8 kB (3%)

Content Size

16.2 MB

After Optimization

15.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theaj.co.uk main page is 16.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 14.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 206.9 kB

  • Original 250.9 kB
  • After minification 238.4 kB
  • After compression 44.0 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 206.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 150.2 kB

  • Original 14.6 MB
  • After minification 14.4 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. Theaj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 116.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 186.6 kB
  • After minification 186.4 kB
  • After compression 181.4 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. Theaj.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 95 (55%)

Requests Now

174

After Optimization

79

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 174 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theaj. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 41 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

theaj.co.uk accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

theaj.co.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theaj.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Theaj.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 Theaj.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

theaj.co.uk

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