Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

westernchampion.co.uk

Diesel Traction Group - D1015 D821 D7029 D8568

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

246 ms

Resources Loaded

770 ms

Page Rendered

143 ms

westernchampion.co.uk screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westernchampion.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 246 ms and then it took 913 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westernchampion.co.uk performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westernchampion.co.uk

246 ms

dtg.css

107 ms

dtgf.png

171 ms

dtglogo1977.jpg

199 ms

svr-vs.png

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Westernchampion.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (416 ms) belongs to the original domain Westernchampion.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.3 kB (14%)

Content Size

219.7 kB

After Optimization

189.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Westernchampion.co.uk main page is 219.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 197.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 4.0 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 7.2 kB, which is 65% 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 9.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 197.3 kB
  • After minification 185.8 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. Westernchampion images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 11.3 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Westernchampion.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westernchampion. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

westernchampion.co.uk accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

westernchampion.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

westernchampion.co.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Westernchampion.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 Westernchampion.co.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

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