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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

thesignetlibrary.co.uk

The Signet Library - Wedding/Party Venue Hire, Edinburgh

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Signet Library content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thesignetlibrary.co.uk

The Signet Library is an iconic venue that offers an unforgettable experience whether you are looking for a party location to hire or a small wedding venue. Home to Edinburgh's finest afternoon tea

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesignetlibrary.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 230 ms and then it took 1.8 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

thesignetlibrary.co.uk performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thesignetlibrary.co.uk

230 ms

reset.css

150 ms

text.css

152 ms

960.css

152 ms

skin.css

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Thesignetlibrary.co.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (818 ms) belongs to the original domain Thesignetlibrary.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 146.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

894.0 kB

After Optimization

747.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesignetlibrary.co.uk main page is 894.0 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. Images take 721.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 16.0 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.0 kB, which is 11% 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 13.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 721.3 kB
  • After minification 684.7 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. The Signet Library images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 66.6 kB

  • Original 118.6 kB
  • After minification 116.7 kB
  • After compression 52.0 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 66.6 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. Thesignetlibrary.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (28%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Signet Library. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 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.thesignetlibrary.co.uk

www.thesignetlibrary.co.uk

230 ms

reset.css

reset.css

150 ms

text.css

text.css

152 ms

960.css

960.css

152 ms

skin.css

skin.css

201 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

230 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

224 ms

site.js

site.js

297 ms

141.jpg

141.jpg

567 ms

140.jpg

140.jpg

592 ms

117.jpg

117.jpg

597 ms

119.jpg

119.jpg

680 ms

118.jpg

118.jpg

662 ms

private_dining_nugget.jpg

private_dining_nugget.jpg

652 ms

conferences_nugget.jpg

conferences_nugget.jpg

792 ms

newsletter_signup_nugget.jpg

newsletter_signup_nugget.jpg

810 ms

events_nugget.jpg

events_nugget.jpg

818 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

797 ms

signet_footer.png

signet_footer.png

811 ms

hpl_header.png

hpl_header.png

651 ms

signet_header.png

signet_header.png

723 ms

social.png

social.png

732 ms

ga.js

ga.js

43 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

624 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

collect

collect

72 ms

print.css

print.css

148 ms

Accessibility Review

thesignetlibrary.co.uk accessibility score

81

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thesignetlibrary.co.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thesignetlibrary.co.uk SEO score

82

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 Thesignetlibrary.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 Thesignetlibrary.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

thesignetlibrary.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Signet Library. 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: