Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

merchantcityfestival.com

Merchant City Festival

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

211 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Merchant City Festival content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about merchantcityfestival.com

Merchant City Festival is a fun-filled festival held within the Merchant City area of Glasgow, usually each year.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merchantcityfestival.com page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merchantcityfestival.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.803

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merchantcityfestival.com

188 ms

www.merchantcityfestival.com

174 ms

default.aspx

512 ms

corev15.css

233 ms

init.js

309 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Merchantcityfestival.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (751 ms) belongs to the original domain Merchantcityfestival.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 957.4 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Merchantcityfestival.com main page is 2.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 67.9 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 8.5 kB, which is 13% 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 50.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 301.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, Merchant City Festival needs image optimization as it can save up to 301.8 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 290.9 kB

  • Original 433.0 kB
  • After minification 423.6 kB
  • After compression 142.1 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 290.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 314.3 kB

  • Original 360.0 kB
  • After minification 254.9 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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. Merchantcityfestival.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 314.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (58%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merchant City Festival. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

merchantcityfestival.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

merchantcityfestival.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

merchantcityfestival.com SEO score

100

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

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 Merchantcityfestival.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 Merchantcityfestival.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

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