Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

galaxybirmingham.co.uk

Capital Birmingham - The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

772 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Galaxybirmingham.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

galaxybirmingham.co.uk performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

galaxybirmingham.co.uk

233 ms

506 ms

75 ms

2122 ms

capital-minified__011c913d.css

375 ms

Our browser made a total of 365 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Galaxybirmingham.co.uk, 5% (18 requests) were made to E.visualdna.com and 5% (17 requests) were made to Capital.gcstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Capitalfm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (31%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Galaxybirmingham.co.uk main page is 4.9 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. 80% 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 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 123.9 kB

  • Original 154.3 kB
  • After minification 135.4 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.9 kB, which is 12% 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 123.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 213.4 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Galaxy Birmingham images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 924.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 432.1 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 924.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 244.7 kB

  • Original 297.0 kB
  • After minification 295.8 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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. Galaxybirmingham.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 244.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 198 (58%)

Requests Now

339

After Optimization

141

The browser has sent 339 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Galaxy Birmingham. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

galaxybirmingham.co.uk accessibility score

88

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

galaxybirmingham.co.uk 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

galaxybirmingham.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 Galaxybirmingham.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 Galaxybirmingham.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 Galaxy Birmingham. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: