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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

castlestudiestrust.org

Castle Studies Trust - Advancing the Understanding of Castles

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

148 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Castle Studies Trust content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about castlestudiestrust.org

The Castle Studies Trust is a UK based charity founded in July 2012 with the aim of increasing knowledge of castles in the UK and abroad.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castlestudiestrust.org page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 2.2 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

castlestudiestrust.org performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castlestudiestrust.org

277 ms

castlestudiestrust.org

355 ms

style.css

93 ms

galleria.classic.css

166 ms

styletemp.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Castlestudiestrust.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (933 ms) belongs to the original domain Castlestudiestrust.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 184.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castlestudiestrust.org main page is 4.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 22.8 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 19.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Castle Studies Trust images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 144.2 kB

  • Original 208.6 kB
  • After minification 191.4 kB
  • After compression 64.4 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 144.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 19.8 kB
  • After minification 15.2 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. Castlestudiestrust.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (23%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

43

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castle Studies Trust. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

castlestudiestrust.org

castlestudiestrust.org

277 ms

castlestudiestrust.org

castlestudiestrust.org

355 ms

style.css

style.css

93 ms

galleria.classic.css

galleria.classic.css

166 ms

styletemp.css

styletemp.css

244 ms

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48 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

244 ms

js

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77 ms

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jquery-1.12.4.min.js

408 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

416 ms

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417 ms

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82 ms

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259 ms

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333 ms

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318 ms

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318 ms

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400 ms

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426 ms

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481 ms

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484 ms

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515 ms

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500 ms

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579 ms

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596 ms

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578 ms

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581 ms

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593 ms

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603 ms

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717 ms

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702 ms

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704 ms

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726 ms

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801 ms

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804 ms

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827 ms

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844 ms

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897 ms

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902 ms

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933 ms

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14 ms

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864 ms

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773 ms

news.png

news.png

818 ms

links.png

links.png

734 ms

loader.gif

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84 ms

separator.png

separator.png

83 ms

nav.png

nav.png

82 ms

bg.png

bg.png

83 ms

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83 ms

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83 ms

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123 ms

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124 ms

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124 ms

Accessibility Review

castlestudiestrust.org accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

castlestudiestrust.org best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

castlestudiestrust.org SEO score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Castlestudiestrust.org 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 Castlestudiestrust.org 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

castlestudiestrust.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Castle Studies Trust. 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: