Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

lawstory.co.uk

Lawstory - a story about lawyers and law firms - Lawstory - a story about lawyers and law firms

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

218 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lawstory.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lawstory.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lawstory.co.uk

1435 ms

js

69 ms

MyFontsWebfontsKit.css

89 ms

jquery.min.js

249 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

224 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Lawstory.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Lawstory.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 641.6 kB (32%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Lawstory.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 42.6 kB

  • Original 52.7 kB
  • After minification 49.0 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 42.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 556.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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, Lawstory needs image optimization as it can save up to 556.8 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 267.5 kB
  • After minification 267.5 kB
  • After compression 238.8 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 28.8 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 64.4 kB
  • After minification 64.2 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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. Lawstory.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.4 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (63%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lawstory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lawstory.co.uk accessibility score

89

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

lawstory.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

lawstory.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Lawstory.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 Lawstory.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 Lawstory. 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: