Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

cyclemuseum.org.uk

The National Cycle Museum Wales UK Llandrindod Wells

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

239 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

cyclemuseum.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit cyclemuseum.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Cycle Museum content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cyclemuseum.org.uk

Welcome to the UK''s National Cycle Museum, based in Mid Wales - A Charitable Trust and collection of bicycles through the ages including Ordinary Hobby Horse Velocipedes Days Out In Wales.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cyclemuseum.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 239 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cyclemuseum.org.uk performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.215

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cyclemuseum.org.uk

239 ms

cyclemuseum.org.uk

611 ms

CycleMuseum.css

173 ms

WebResource.axd

308 ms

ScriptResource.axd

553 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Cyclemuseum.org.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cyclemuseum.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 622.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Cyclemuseum.org.uk main page is 4.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 60.5 kB
  • After minification 56.6 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 45.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 575.3 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Obviously, Cycle Museum needs image optimization as it can save up to 575.3 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 501 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 608 B

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. Cyclemuseum.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 501 B or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (38%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cycle Museum. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cyclemuseum.org.uk accessibility score

87

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

cyclemuseum.org.uk best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

cyclemuseum.org.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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cyclemuseum.org.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 Cyclemuseum.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Cycle Museum. 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: