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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

thebristolcable.org

The Bristol Cable: News, Investigations & Events | Bristol's media co-op.

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebristolcable.org page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebristolcable.org performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.145

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebristolcable.org

261 ms

thebristolcable.org

404 ms

normalize.min.css

80 ms

style.css

242 ms

membership.js

466 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Thebristolcable.org, 60% (34 requests) were made to Static.thebristolcable.org and 2% (1 request) were made to Membership.thebristolcable.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (488 ms) relates to the external source Thebristolcable.matomo.cloud.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 302.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebristolcable.org main page is 5.5 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. 75% 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 5.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 121.5 kB

  • Original 146.8 kB
  • After minification 138.4 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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 121.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 166.5 kB

  • Original 5.2 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. The Bristol Cable images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 49.6 kB
  • After minification 49.6 kB
  • After compression 44.8 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 49.7 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. Thebristolcable.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.5 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (10%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

44

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Bristol Cable. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thebristolcable.org

thebristolcable.org

261 ms

thebristolcable.org

thebristolcable.org

404 ms

normalize.min.css

normalize.min.css

80 ms

style.css

style.css

242 ms

membership.js

membership.js

466 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

382 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

310 ms

all.js

all.js

308 ms

home.js

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309 ms

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150 ms

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187 ms

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173 ms

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182 ms

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186 ms

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193 ms

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198 ms

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211 ms

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241 ms

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211 ms

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213 ms

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217 ms

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221 ms

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238 ms

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238 ms

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239 ms

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277 ms

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278 ms

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278 ms

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280 ms

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282 ms

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285 ms

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284 ms

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285 ms

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282 ms

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189 ms

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115 ms

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281 ms

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99 ms

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242 ms

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196 ms

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301 ms

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383 ms

matomo.js

matomo.js

16 ms

matomo.php

matomo.php

488 ms

Accessibility Review

thebristolcable.org accessibility score

65

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

thebristolcable.org best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thebristolcable.org SEO score

84

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

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 Thebristolcable.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 Thebristolcable.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

thebristolcable.org

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