Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

creativesheffield.co.uk

Business Sheffield

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

creativesheffield.co.uk screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Creativesheffield.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 167 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

creativesheffield.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,170 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

business

167 ms

business

1020 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

32 ms

flickity.min.css

449 ms

index.css

608 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Creativesheffield.co.uk, 11% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Public.govdelivery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Welcometosheffield.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 716.7 kB (29%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Creativesheffield.co.uk main page is 2.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 233.6 kB

  • Original 261.7 kB
  • After minification 203.7 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 58.0 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 233.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 112.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Creative Sheffield images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 370.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 642.0 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 370.0 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 186 B

  • Original 64.9 kB
  • After minification 64.9 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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. Creativesheffield.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (76%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Creative Sheffield. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

creativesheffield.co.uk accessibility score

86

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 have valid values

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

creativesheffield.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

creativesheffield.co.uk SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Creativesheffield.co.uk 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 Creativesheffield.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 data is detected on the main page of Creative Sheffield. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: