Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

discoversouthken.com

Discover South Kensington - Discover South Kensington

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

456 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

542 ms

discoversouthken.com screenshot

About Website

Visit discoversouthken.com now to see the best up-to-date Discover South Ken content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about discoversouthken.com

Discover amazing exhibitions, inspiring events and great places to eat in the heart of South Kensington - London's arts and science district.

Visit discoversouthken.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Discoversouthken.com page load time and found that the first response time was 456 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discoversouthken.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.223

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.discoversouthken.com

456 ms

2e74bd26-a8c6-4311-b4c8-f3eb1da9cf00.css

177 ms

font-awesome.min.css

86 ms

all.css

188 ms

bootstrap.min.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Discoversouthken.com, 9% (7 requests) were made to Map.footways.london and 7% (6 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Discoversouthken.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 153.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Discoversouthken.com main page is 1.5 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. 75% 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 54.6 kB

  • Original 64.4 kB
  • After minification 40.7 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 23.7 kB, which is 37% 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 54.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Discover South Ken images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 96.9 kB

  • Original 274.5 kB
  • After minification 270.0 kB
  • After compression 177.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 96.9 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 195 B

  • Original 33.8 kB
  • After minification 33.8 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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. Discoversouthken.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (51%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover South Ken. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

discoversouthken.com accessibility score

79

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

discoversouthken.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

discoversouthken.com SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Discoversouthken.com 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 Discoversouthken.com 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 Discover South Ken. 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: