Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

solarspace.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

360 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

90 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solarspace.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 360 ms and then it took 2.8 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

solarspace.co.uk performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,180 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solarspace.co.uk

360 ms

normal.css

101 ms

page

156 ms

show_ads.js

48 ms

black_r1_c1.gif

454 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Solarspace.co.uk, 18% (22 requests) were made to Allposters.com and 15% (19 requests) were made to Cache1.allpostersimages.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (772 ms) relates to the external source Allposters.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.5 kB (26%)

Content Size

348.4 kB

After Optimization

258.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Solarspace.co.uk main page is 348.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 205.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 27.5 kB
  • After minification 26.6 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. 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 19.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 316 B

  • Original 11.5 kB
  • After minification 11.2 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. Solar Space images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 205.1 kB
  • After minification 205.1 kB
  • After compression 203.8 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

-65%

Potential reduce by 68.0 kB

  • Original 104.3 kB
  • After minification 103.6 kB
  • After compression 36.3 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. Solarspace.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 68.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (57%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar Space. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

solarspace.co.uk accessibility score

64

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 match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

solarspace.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

solarspace.co.uk SEO score

62

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

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 Solarspace.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 Solarspace.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 Solar Space. 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: