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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

gig-guide.co.uk

Gig Guide: Live Music, Concerts and Events Near You

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

268 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

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About Website

Welcome to gig-guide.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Gig Guide best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about gig-guide.co.uk

Welcome to Gig Guide, your go-to destination for all things live music. You'll find all the latest info on gigs, concerts, music festivals, and more. Want to discover new artists or see your favourite...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gig-guide.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 268 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gig-guide.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,400 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.181

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gig-guide.co.uk

268 ms

www.gig-guide.co.uk

1088 ms

bootstrap.min.css

6 ms

font-awesome.min.css

14 ms

ggllayout.min.css

262 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Gig-guide.co.uk, 14% (4 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Gig-guide.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.7 kB (69%)

Content Size

292.5 kB

After Optimization

89.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gig-guide.co.uk main page is 292.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 150.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 19.6 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 14.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 460 B

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 32.0 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. Gig Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 63.5 kB

  • Original 90.2 kB
  • After minification 86.2 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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 63.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 123.9 kB

  • Original 150.2 kB
  • After minification 146.0 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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. Gig-guide.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 123.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (73%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gig Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gig-guide.co.uk

gig-guide.co.uk

268 ms

www.gig-guide.co.uk

www.gig-guide.co.uk

1088 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

6 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

14 ms

ggllayout.min.css

ggllayout.min.css

262 ms

ggcolors.min.css

ggcolors.min.css

263 ms

menustyles.css

menustyles.css

272 ms

1x1trans.gif

1x1trans.gif

181 ms

brand

brand

14 ms

brand

brand

52 ms

modernizr-2.6.1.min.js

modernizr-2.6.1.min.js

183 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

3 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

4 ms

respond.js

respond.js

12 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

4 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

14 ms

custom.js

custom.js

377 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

jquery-latest.min.js

4 ms

script.js

script.js

257 ms

edaddb4b0d3915de4ff6f25726b8c66b.js

edaddb4b0d3915de4ff6f25726b8c66b.js

257 ms

css

css

25 ms

mainheader.jpg

mainheader.jpg

193 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

91 ms

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

90 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

29 ms

k3k702ZOKiLJc3WVjuplzInF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

k3k702ZOKiLJc3WVjuplzInF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

35 ms

cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

48 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

32 ms

Accessibility Review

gig-guide.co.uk accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

gig-guide.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

SEO Factors

gig-guide.co.uk SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Gig-guide.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 Gig-guide.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

gig-guide.co.uk

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