Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

archaeology.crossrail.co.uk

Tunnel: The Archaeology of Crossrail - Crossrail Archaeology Museum

Page Load Speed

11.1 sec in total

First Response

305 ms

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

121 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Archaeology.crossrail.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 305 ms and then it took 10.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

archaeology.crossrail.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value32,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

archaeology.crossrail.co.uk

305 ms

style.min.css

255 ms

retina.css

194 ms

foundation.css

294 ms

jquery.min.js

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Archaeology.crossrail.co.uk, 14% (13 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 346.3 kB (56%)

Content Size

615.3 kB

After Optimization

269.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Archaeology.crossrail.co.uk main page is 615.3 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. 80% 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 615.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 68 B
  • After minification 68 B

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. Archaeology Crossrail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 346.3 kB

  • Original 615.2 kB
  • After minification 544.1 kB
  • After compression 268.9 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 346.3 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (48%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Archaeology Crossrail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

archaeology.crossrail.co.uk accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

archaeology.crossrail.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

archaeology.crossrail.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Archaeology.crossrail.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 Archaeology.crossrail.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 Archaeology Crossrail. 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: