Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

fwd4.me

Motorway Traffic Cameras - Live CCTV images and traffic news

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

226 ms

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About Website

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Motorway Traffic Cameras - View live CCTV images and traffic news on your computer or mobile phone. Covering the M1, M4, M5, M6, M25, M40, M60, M62 and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fwd4.me page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fwd4.me performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,350 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fwd4.me

174 ms

www.motorwaycameras.co.uk

524 ms

bootstrap.min.css

623 ms

motorwaycameras_light_20191007.css

388 ms

motorwaycameras_dark_20191007.css

393 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Fwd4.me, 43% (9 requests) were made to Static.roadcams.co.uk and 19% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (623 ms) relates to the external source Static.roadcams.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 252.4 kB (44%)

Content Size

572.3 kB

After Optimization

319.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Fwd4.me main page is 572.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 368.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 50.7 kB

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 33.4 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 22.4 kB, which is 40% 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 50.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 14.6 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. Obviously, Fwd 4 needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 89.7 kB

  • Original 368.4 kB
  • After minification 368.4 kB
  • After compression 278.7 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 89.7 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 109.9 kB

  • Original 131.4 kB
  • After minification 128.6 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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. Fwd4.me needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (37%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fwd 4. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fwd4.me accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

fwd4.me best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fwd4.me 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 Fwd4.me 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 Fwd4.me 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 Fwd 4. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: