Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

thecbdblog.co.uk

The CBD Blog - Hemp, Cannabidiol & Cannabis Culture

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

263 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

506 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecbdblog.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 263 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecbdblog.co.uk performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.161

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecbdblog.co.uk

263 ms

thecbdblog.co.uk

2232 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

89 ms

style.min.css

184 ms

classic-themes.min.css

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Thecbdblog.co.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to A1.awin1.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecbdblog.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 411.4 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Thecbdblog.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 95.1 kB
  • After minification 92.9 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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 79.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 325.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 935.0 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, The CBD Blog needs image optimization as it can save up to 325.3 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 60.5 kB
  • After minification 60.5 kB
  • After compression 58.4 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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. Thecbdblog.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (35%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The CBD Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thecbdblog.co.uk accessibility score

83

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

thecbdblog.co.uk best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

thecbdblog.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Thecbdblog.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 Thecbdblog.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

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