Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

467 ms

Resources Loaded

754 ms

Page Rendered

100 ms

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About Website

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Astronomy Shed, a uk based astronomy forum for astronomy, telescope and observatory discussion with an emphasis on DIY astro projects and development of ideas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Astronomyshed.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 467 ms and then it took 854 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

astronomyshed.co.uk performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.9 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

astronomyshed.co.uk

467 ms

valid-xhtml10

30 ms

starsbackground.gif

100 ms

ashedlogo.jpg

287 ms

buttonbar.jpg

197 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Astronomyshed.co.uk, 20% (1 request) were made to W3.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (467 ms) belongs to the original domain Astronomyshed.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

33.2 kB

After Optimization

29.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Astronomyshed.co.uk main page is 33.2 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 29.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 2.0 kB or 57% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 29.6 kB
  • After minification 27.7 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. Astronomyshed images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Astronomyshed. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

astronomyshed.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

astronomyshed.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

astronomyshed.co.uk SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Astronomyshed.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Astronomyshed.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

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