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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

towcestermuseum.co.uk

Towcester Museum - Thousands of years of Towcester’s history

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

663 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

109 ms

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About Website

Welcome to towcestermuseum.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Towcester Museum best content right away, or after learning these important things about towcestermuseum.co.uk

A modern museum, fascinating artefacts, family friendly activities, life-like dioramas, detailed models - a journey through time

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Key Findings

We analyzed Towcestermuseum.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 663 ms and then it took 2 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

towcestermuseum.co.uk performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

towcestermuseum.co.uk

663 ms

style.css

208 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

513 ms

jquery.bxSlider.min.js

314 ms

site.js

209 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Towcestermuseum.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (663 ms) belongs to the original domain Towcestermuseum.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 243.4 kB (28%)

Content Size

860.8 kB

After Optimization

617.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Towcestermuseum.co.uk main page is 860.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 476.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 31.5 kB
  • After minification 30.5 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 24.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 476.7 kB
  • After minification 451.9 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. Towcester Museum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 77.9 kB

  • Original 218.1 kB
  • After minification 216.0 kB
  • After compression 140.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 77.9 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 116.1 kB

  • Original 134.6 kB
  • After minification 125.2 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. Towcestermuseum.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 116.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (21%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Towcester Museum. 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

towcestermuseum.co.uk

towcestermuseum.co.uk

663 ms

style.css

style.css

208 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

513 ms

jquery.bxSlider.min.js

jquery.bxSlider.min.js

314 ms

site.js

site.js

209 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

566 ms

js

js

69 ms

trip-advisor-logo.png

trip-advisor-logo.png

125 ms

heritage-lottery.png

heritage-lottery.png

130 ms

heritage_forum.png

heritage_forum.png

172 ms

musem_WW1-Exhibition-2018.jpg

musem_WW1-Exhibition-2018.jpg

292 ms

tmuseum_group.jpg

tmuseum_group.jpg

189 ms

museum-2.jpg

museum-2.jpg

324 ms

IMG_0677-cropped-again.jpg

IMG_0677-cropped-again.jpg

426 ms

gift-shop-cropped-1.jpg

gift-shop-cropped-1.jpg

380 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

375 ms

logo.png

logo.png

256 ms

spite-dropdown.png

spite-dropdown.png

349 ms

dorum-mouse.jpg

dorum-mouse.jpg

380 ms

towcester-head.png

towcester-head.png

628 ms

spite-icons.png

spite-icons.png

436 ms

social-media.png

social-media.png

457 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

7 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

js

js

62 ms

Accessibility Review

towcestermuseum.co.uk accessibility score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

towcestermuseum.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

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

towcestermuseum.co.uk SEO score

84

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Towcestermuseum.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Towcestermuseum.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

towcestermuseum.co.uk

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