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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

whatmakessheffield.com

Welcome to Sheffield - the official destination website for the city

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

807 ms

whatmakessheffield.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to whatmakessheffield.com homepage info - get ready to check Whatmakes Sheffield best content right away, or after learning these important things about whatmakessheffield.com

The Outdoor City, where nature meets culture. We are the UK's greenest city, blending arts, music, food & drink and heritage with 61% greenspace, 5 rivers, and The Peak District National Park.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whatmakessheffield.com page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whatmakessheffield.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,660 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whatmakessheffield.com

174 ms

www.welcometosheffield.co.uk

827 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

38 ms

flickity.min.css

178 ms

index.css

314 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Whatmakessheffield.com, 39% (13 requests) were made to Welcometosheffield.co.uk and 12% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (827 ms) relates to the external source Welcometosheffield.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 216.2 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

792.3 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whatmakessheffield.com main page is 1.0 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. Javascripts take 747.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 149.6 kB

  • Original 172.9 kB
  • After minification 129.6 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 43.3 kB, which is 25% 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 149.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 747.1 kB
  • After minification 747.1 kB
  • After compression 704.3 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

-27%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 88.4 kB
  • After minification 88.4 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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. Whatmakessheffield.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.7 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (81%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whatmakes Sheffield. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

whatmakessheffield.com

whatmakessheffield.com

174 ms

www.welcometosheffield.co.uk

www.welcometosheffield.co.uk

827 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

38 ms

flickity.min.css

flickity.min.css

178 ms

index.css

index.css

314 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

59 ms

619703155

619703155

131 ms

Signup.js

Signup.js

311 ms

flickity.min.js

flickity.min.js

332 ms

vimeoPlayer.js

vimeoPlayer.js

331 ms

carousel.js

carousel.js

331 ms

collapse.js

collapse.js

416 ms

index.js

index.js

409 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

95 ms

element.js

element.js

94 ms

picturefill.min.js

picturefill.min.js

410 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

407 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

413 ms

aspnet-validation.min.js

aspnet-validation.min.js

410 ms

main.css

main.css

98 ms

map.js

map.js

513 ms

destination

destination

79 ms

destination

destination

79 ms

js

js

108 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

60 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

29 ms

init.js

init.js

48 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

61 ms

form

form

135 ms

landing

landing

75 ms

collect

collect

5 ms

signup_form-71024b7cf10fdccc9793a9a89baa70363475c348aaae809717e528bc328035ed.css

signup_form-71024b7cf10fdccc9793a9a89baa70363475c348aaae809717e528bc328035ed.css

52 ms

SignupForm-23bd8396079bb1f83b81cc3c134a07bafa8d2ce042a917d45f863ca38ab2a9c2.js

SignupForm-23bd8396079bb1f83b81cc3c134a07bafa8d2ce042a917d45f863ca38ab2a9c2.js

79 ms

Accessibility Review

whatmakessheffield.com accessibility score

86

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 have valid values

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

whatmakessheffield.com 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

whatmakessheffield.com SEO score

91

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

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 Whatmakessheffield.com 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 Whatmakessheffield.com 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

whatmakessheffield.com

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