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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% 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

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

theslowlivingguide.co.uk

The Slow Living Guide | Small Sustainable Business Directory

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

371 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

808 ms

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About Website

Welcome to theslowlivingguide.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check The Slow Living Guide best content right away, or after learning these important things about theslowlivingguide.co.uk

Welcome to The Slow Living Guide, a directory of small sustainable businesses in the UK & inspirational resources for how to start living slowly.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theslowlivingguide.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 371 ms and then it took 4.7 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

theslowlivingguide.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,720 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.215

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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371 ms

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586 ms

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Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Theslowlivingguide.co.uk, 17% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.mailerlite.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (850 ms) belongs to the original domain Theslowlivingguide.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 326.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theslowlivingguide.co.uk main page is 4.0 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 256.1 kB

  • Original 303.6 kB
  • After minification 301.9 kB
  • After compression 47.4 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 256.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 61.7 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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 Slow Living Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 661.0 kB
  • After minification 659.9 kB
  • After compression 654.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 100.7 kB
  • After minification 100.5 kB
  • After compression 99.3 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. Theslowlivingguide.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (62%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Slow Living Guide. 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 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

theslowlivingguide.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.

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

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

theslowlivingguide.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theslowlivingguide.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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 Theslowlivingguide.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 Theslowlivingguide.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

theslowlivingguide.co.uk

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