Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

geeksoflondon.com

GeeksOfLondon

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

266 ms

Resources Loaded

714 ms

Page Rendered

324 ms

geeksoflondon.com screenshot

About Website

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Geeks of London organises meetups for all different types of geeks, from techie geeks and comic book geeks, to scifi geeks and ice cream geeks.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geeksoflondon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 266 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

geeksoflondon.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.305

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

geeksoflondon.com

266 ms

screen.css

7 ms

modernizr-2.0.js

214 ms

ender.js

217 ms

octopress.js

224 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Geeksoflondon.com, 12% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (266 ms) belongs to the original domain Geeksoflondon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 45.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

511.4 kB

After Optimization

466.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Geeksoflondon.com main page is 511.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 456.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 9.2 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 6.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 456.8 kB
  • After minification 452.8 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. Geeks Of London images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 648 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 869 B

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 648 B or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 33.8 kB

  • Original 43.3 kB
  • After minification 43.0 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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. Geeksoflondon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (57%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Geeks Of London. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

geeksoflondon.com accessibility score

75

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

geeksoflondon.com best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

geeksoflondon.com SEO score

92

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

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 Geeksoflondon.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 Geeksoflondon.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 Geeks Of London. 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: