Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

weeklygripe.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

535 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weeklygripe.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weeklygripe.co.uk performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,930 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weeklygripe.co.uk

277 ms

www.weeklygripe.co.uk

463 ms

grid.css

202 ms

main.css

207 ms

api.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Weeklygripe.co.uk, 10% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to C.betrad.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (586 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.atlassbx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 848.2 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

805.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Weeklygripe.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 118.2 kB

  • Original 154.0 kB
  • After minification 153.4 kB
  • After compression 35.8 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 118.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 350.8 kB
  • After minification 338.9 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. Weekly Gripe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 703.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 427.0 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 703.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Weeklygripe.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (47%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weekly Gripe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

weeklygripe.co.uk accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

weeklygripe.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

weeklygripe.co.uk SEO score

77

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

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 doesn't use 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 Weeklygripe.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 Weeklygripe.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 description is not detected on the main page of Weekly Gripe. 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: