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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

torro.org.uk

TORRO | The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

897 ms

Page Rendered

223 ms

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About Website

Visit torro.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date TORRO content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about torro.org.uk

The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) is a privately-supported research body specialising in severe convective weather in Britain and Ireland with a particular focus on thunderstorms, to...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Torro.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

torro.org.uk performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

torro.org.uk

267 ms

weather-screen-blue-wide.css

86 ms

javascript.gp

177 ms

cookieControl-5.1.min.js

161 ms

torro_banner.png

392 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Torro.org.uk, 4% (1 request) were made to Geoplugin.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (449 ms) belongs to the original domain Torro.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 111.3 kB (23%)

Content Size

475.0 kB

After Optimization

363.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Torro.org.uk main page is 475.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 313.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 15.3 kB, which is 39% 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 31.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 313.7 kB
  • After minification 290.0 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. TORRO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 110.2 kB
  • After minification 110.2 kB
  • After compression 64.1 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 46.2 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 12.1 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Torro.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (18%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TORRO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

torro.org.uk

torro.org.uk

267 ms

weather-screen-blue-wide.css

weather-screen-blue-wide.css

86 ms

javascript.gp

javascript.gp

177 ms

cookieControl-5.1.min.js

cookieControl-5.1.min.js

161 ms

torro_banner.png

torro_banner.png

392 ms

Twitter-icon.png

Twitter-icon.png

156 ms

facebook-icon.png

facebook-icon.png

157 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

246 ms

bookcover.jpg

bookcover.jpg

312 ms

word_icon.gif

word_icon.gif

244 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

6 ms

subheader.gif

subheader.gif

149 ms

flyout-shade-white.gif

flyout-shade-white.gif

149 ms

flyout-sub.gif

flyout-sub.gif

210 ms

flyout-transparent.gif

flyout-transparent.gif

216 ms

map.jpg

map.jpg

449 ms

BirminghamTornado.jpg

BirminghamTornado.jpg

294 ms

July2010cov.jpg

July2010cov.jpg

288 ms

June2010cover.jpg

June2010cover.jpg

293 ms

May%202010cov.jpg

May%202010cov.jpg

293 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

4 ms

ga.js

ga.js

19 ms

weather-print-php.css

weather-print-php.css

80 ms

Accessibility Review

torro.org.uk accessibility score

63

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

torro.org.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

torro.org.uk SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Torro.org.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 Torro.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

torro.org.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of TORRO. 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: