Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

ilfordpost.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

29.6 sec in total

First Response

407 ms

Resources Loaded

27.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ilfordpost.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 407 ms and then it took 29.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ilfordpost.co.uk performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

407 ms

css

377 ms

jshead

2535 ms

london_wide_stylesheet_045_9_7_180265

189 ms

site_specific_011_7_162571

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 386 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Ilfordpost.co.uk, 8% (32 requests) were made to Jobs24.co.uk and 8% (32 requests) were made to Ilfordrecorder.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Pixel2368.everesttech.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (29%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Ilfordpost.co.uk main page is 6.0 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. 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 529.4 kB

  • Original 581.7 kB
  • After minification 551.0 kB
  • After compression 52.4 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. 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 529.4 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 547.0 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Obviously, Ilfordpost needs image optimization as it can save up to 547.0 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

-70%

Potential reduce by 645.3 kB

  • Original 923.9 kB
  • After minification 902.0 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 645.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 3.7 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Ilfordpost.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 168 (46%)

Requests Now

365

After Optimization

197

The browser has sent 365 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ilfordpost. 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

ilfordpost.co.uk accessibility score

86

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

ilfordpost.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

ilfordpost.co.uk SEO score

92

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ilfordpost.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Ilfordpost.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 Ilfordpost. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: