Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

bridgwatertown.com

Bridgwater, Somerset Town web site, places to stay, eat and visit, local businesses, shops and voluntary groups - Bridgwater Town

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

297 ms

Resources Loaded

701 ms

Page Rendered

118 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bridgwatertown.com page load time and found that the first response time was 297 ms and then it took 819 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

bridgwatertown.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,480 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.245

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bridgwatertown.com

297 ms

slick.css

39 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

47 ms

utils.js

23 ms

Menus.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Bridgwatertown.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (297 ms) belongs to the original domain Bridgwatertown.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 103.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

503.3 kB

After Optimization

400.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Bridgwatertown.com main page is 503.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 237.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 33.2 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 22.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 745 B

  • Original 216.2 kB
  • After minification 215.5 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. Bridgwater Town images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 75.8 kB

  • Original 237.7 kB
  • After minification 236.3 kB
  • After compression 161.9 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 75.8 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. Bridgwatertown.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (65%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bridgwater Town. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bridgwatertown.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

bridgwatertown.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

bridgwatertown.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bridgwatertown.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 Bridgwatertown.com 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 Bridgwater Town. 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: