Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

gizmag.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

602 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gizmag.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 2.6 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

gizmag.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,560 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newatlas.com

76 ms

All.min.67ae4196e41ff1f3c964e5e5a8a719f9.gz.css

69 ms

All.min.8a918800932b9a4fae474fee6ed2eb61.gz.js

51 ms

newatlas.js

100 ms

SiteSearchAnalytics.5eb1a8a326b06970c71b3a253fbeaa64.gz.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Gizmag.co.uk, 6% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Assets.newatlas.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Gizmag.co.uk main page is 4.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 149.1 kB

  • Original 185.0 kB
  • After minification 160.8 kB
  • After compression 35.9 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 24.2 kB, which is 13% 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 149.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 109.1 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Gizmag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 161 B

  • Original 60.6 kB
  • After minification 60.6 kB
  • After compression 60.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 29.3 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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. Gizmag.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (31%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gizmag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gizmag.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

gizmag.co.uk 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gizmag.co.uk 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gizmag.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 Gizmag.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 description is not detected on the main page of Gizmag. 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: