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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

discoveringfossils.co.uk

Discovering Fossils - Introducing the Palaeontology of Great Britain

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

745 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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About Website

Visit discoveringfossils.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Discovering Fossils content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about discoveringfossils.co.uk

Roy Shepherd and Robert Randell introduce the fascinating world of palaeontology and fossil hunting of Great Britain.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discoveringfossils.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 745 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discoveringfossils.co.uk performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.discoveringfossils.co.uk

745 ms

style.min.css

562 ms

style.css

368 ms

css

19 ms

font-awesome.min.css

355 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Discoveringfossils.co.uk, 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (745 ms) belongs to the original domain Discoveringfossils.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 348.8 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

671.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discoveringfossils.co.uk main page is 1.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 593.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 30.5 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. 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 23.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 593.6 kB
  • After minification 582.5 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. Discovering Fossils images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 83.8 kB

  • Original 128.6 kB
  • After minification 128.6 kB
  • After compression 44.8 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 83.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 230.4 kB

  • Original 267.5 kB
  • After minification 239.2 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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. Discoveringfossils.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 230.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (65%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discovering Fossils. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.discoveringfossils.co.uk

www.discoveringfossils.co.uk

745 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

562 ms

style.css

style.css

368 ms

css

css

19 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

355 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

517 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

207 ms

loadmore.min.js

loadmore.min.js

219 ms

jquery.sticky.min.js

jquery.sticky.min.js

303 ms

navigation.min.js

navigation.min.js

312 ms

jquery.fitvids.min.js

jquery.fitvids.min.js

410 ms

theia-sticky-sidebar.min.js

theia-sticky-sidebar.min.js

422 ms

ResizeSensor.min.js

ResizeSensor.min.js

440 ms

colormag-custom.min.js

colormag-custom.min.js

454 ms

DF-Header-2.jpg

DF-Header-2.jpg

428 ms

Public-Fossil-Hunts-Roy.jpg

Public-Fossil-Hunts-Roy.jpg

255 ms

What-is-a-fossil-ammonite2.jpg

What-is-a-fossil-ammonite2.jpg

539 ms

font

font

15 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

277 ms

Accessibility Review

discoveringfossils.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

discoveringfossils.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

SEO Factors

discoveringfossils.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Discoveringfossils.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 Discoveringfossils.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Discovering Fossils. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: