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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

welshpoetry.co.uk

Home - Poetry Competition - Welsh Poetry Competition

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

923 ms

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About Website

Visit welshpoetry.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Welsh Poetry content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about welshpoetry.co.uk

The annual International Welsh Poetry Competition is the most prestigious prize in Welsh literature for unpublished poems.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Welshpoetry.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

welshpoetry.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.welshpoetry.co.uk

1639 ms

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95 ms

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47 ms

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189 ms

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282 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Welshpoetry.co.uk, 34% (22 requests) were made to Secure.gravatar.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Poetrybookawards.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Welshpoetry.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Welshpoetry.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 134.3 kB

  • Original 158.9 kB
  • After minification 150.1 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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. 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 134.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Welsh Poetry images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 124.6 kB
  • After minification 124.6 kB
  • After compression 122.8 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 31.1 kB
  • After minification 31.1 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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. Welshpoetry.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (19%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welsh Poetry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

welshpoetry.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

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

welshpoetry.co.uk best practices score

67

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

welshpoetry.co.uk SEO score

84

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Welshpoetry.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 Welshpoetry.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

welshpoetry.co.uk

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