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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

kielderobservatory.org

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

735 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kielderobservatory.org page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kielderobservatory.org performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kielderobservatory.org

241 ms

kielderobservatory.org

924 ms

analytics.js

45 ms

template.css

116 ms

user.css

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Kielderobservatory.org, 6% (3 requests) were made to Script.crazyegg.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (924 ms) belongs to the original domain Kielderobservatory.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 453.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kielderobservatory.org main page is 1.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 827.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 36.7 kB
  • After minification 34.0 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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. 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 26.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 391 B

  • Original 827.2 kB
  • After minification 826.8 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. Kielder Observatory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 327.9 kB

  • Original 494.3 kB
  • After minification 487.7 kB
  • After compression 166.3 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 327.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 98.7 kB

  • Original 122.3 kB
  • After minification 97.5 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. Kielderobservatory.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 98.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (53%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kielder Observatory. 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 from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kielderobservatory.org

kielderobservatory.org

241 ms

kielderobservatory.org

kielderobservatory.org

924 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

45 ms

template.css

template.css

116 ms

user.css

user.css

194 ms

media_css.css

media_css.css

259 ms

css

css

76 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

261 ms

vm-ltr-common.css

vm-ltr-common.css

264 ms

vm-ltr-site.css

vm-ltr-site.css

345 ms

vm-ltr-reviews.css

vm-ltr-reviews.css

264 ms

chosen.css

chosen.css

271 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

492 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

323 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

326 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

410 ms

template.js

template.js

339 ms

checkbox.js

checkbox.js

401 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

562 ms

core.js

core.js

410 ms

mootools-more.js

mootools-more.js

653 ms

3364.js

3364.js

83 ms

slick.css

slick.css

127 ms

fontawesome.min.css

fontawesome.min.css

104 ms

all.min.js

all.min.js

164 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

162 ms

collect

collect

23 ms

collect

collect

85 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

225 ms

DoL%20swoosh%20white_4x.webp

DoL%20swoosh%20white_4x.webp

257 ms

button-light.png

button-light.png

628 ms

logo.png

logo.png

255 ms

milkyway.jpg

milkyway.jpg

610 ms

button-big-bg.png

button-big-bg.png

255 ms

treeline.png

treeline.png

517 ms

events.jpg

events.jpg

283 ms

about.jpg

about.jpg

283 ms

visit.jpg

visit.jpg

310 ms

news.jpg

news.jpg

380 ms

logo-forestry-commission.jpg

logo-forestry-commission.jpg

327 ms

logo-inhouse.jpg

logo-inhouse.jpg

328 ms

logo-kielder-forest.jpg

logo-kielder-forest.jpg

379 ms

logo-eu.jpg

logo-eu.jpg

404 ms

logo-leader.jpg

logo-leader.jpg

406 ms

cards.png

cards.png

451 ms

3364.json

3364.json

129 ms

11.1.118.js

11.1.118.js

114 ms

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mem8YaGs126MiZpBA-UFVZ0d.woff

142 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

338 ms

Accessibility Review

kielderobservatory.org accessibility score

90

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

kielderobservatory.org best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

kielderobservatory.org SEO score

99

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

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 Kielderobservatory.org 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 Kielderobservatory.org 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

kielderobservatory.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kielder Observatory. 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: