Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

hobgoblin.co.uk

Default Web Site Page

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

312 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

146 ms

hobgoblin.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to hobgoblin.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Hobgoblin best content right away, or after learning these important things about hobgoblin.co.uk

Hobgoblin Music has provided musicians with otherwise hard to find folk instruments, celtic instruments and acoustic instruments for 40 years, and has grown to be the largest source in Europe, and pro...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hobgoblin.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 312 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hobgoblin.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value980 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.405

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hobgoblin.co.uk

312 ms

www.hobgoblin.com

330 ms

hobgoblin.com

1877 ms

amshopby.css

80 ms

sagePaySuite.css

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 143 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hobgoblin.co.uk, 80% (114 requests) were made to Hobgoblin.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Hobgoblin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 718.4 kB (20%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Hobgoblin.co.uk main page is 3.6 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 598.7 kB

  • Original 628.6 kB
  • After minification 215.2 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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 413.4 kB, which is 66% 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 598.7 kB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 108.3 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Hobgoblin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 388 B

  • Original 111.0 kB
  • After minification 111.0 kB
  • After compression 110.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 64.7 kB
  • After minification 64.7 kB
  • After compression 53.7 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. Hobgoblin.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (41%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

79

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hobgoblin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hobgoblin.co.uk accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

hobgoblin.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

hobgoblin.co.uk SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hobgoblin.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 Hobgoblin.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 Hobgoblin. 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: