Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

ukdevawards.co.uk

UK Dev Awards | Celebrating Development Excellence in the UK

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

604 ms

ukdevawards.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ukdevawards.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ukdevawards.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,070 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ukdevawards.co.uk

1365 ms

5693998.js

73 ms

fb.js

66 ms

5693998.js

111 ms

collectedforms.js

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Ukdevawards.co.uk, 6% (5 requests) were made to Google.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Ukdevawards.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 966.7 kB (32%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Ukdevawards.co.uk main page is 3.1 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. 80% 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 73.5 kB

  • Original 91.1 kB
  • After minification 70.8 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 20.3 kB, which is 22% 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 73.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 844.3 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, UK Dev Awards needs image optimization as it can save up to 844.3 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 48.6 kB

  • Original 458.8 kB
  • After minification 458.8 kB
  • After compression 410.2 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 48.6 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 233 B

  • Original 64.1 kB
  • After minification 64.1 kB
  • After compression 63.9 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. Ukdevawards.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (71%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UK Dev Awards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ukdevawards.co.uk accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

ukdevawards.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

ukdevawards.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Ukdevawards.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 Ukdevawards.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 UK Dev Awards. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: