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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

light.co.uk

DesignCurial | Architecture, Design and Interiors Magazine

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

869 ms

light.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Light content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about light.co.uk

DesignCurial is unique in its ability to draw on the superlative editorial resources of industry-leading sister titles Blueprint and FX, in addition to generating its own unique content.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Light.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 3 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

light.co.uk performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,110 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.588

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

light.co.uk

39 ms

www.designcurial.com

163 ms

www.designcurial.com

370 ms

foundation.css

85 ms

style.css

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Light.co.uk, 66% (49 requests) were made to Designcurial.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Designcurial.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (8%)

Content Size

14.2 MB

After Optimization

13.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Light.co.uk main page is 14.2 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 9.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 103.9 kB
  • After minification 95.3 kB
  • After compression 30.7 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 73.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 764.6 kB

  • Original 9.1 MB
  • After minification 8.4 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. Light images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 298.2 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.9 MB
  • After compression 4.6 MB

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

-46%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 52.3 kB
  • After minification 52.2 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. Light.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.1 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (28%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Light. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

light.co.uk

light.co.uk

39 ms

www.designcurial.com

www.designcurial.com

163 ms

www.designcurial.com

www.designcurial.com

370 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

85 ms

style.css

style.css

187 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

216 ms

wmi-stylesheet.css

wmi-stylesheet.css

215 ms

jquery_ui_datepicker.css

jquery_ui_datepicker.css

232 ms

css

css

39 ms

modernizr.foundation.js

modernizr.foundation.js

236 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

480 ms

adyoulike.omnitagjs.com

adyoulike.omnitagjs.com

350 ms

e82dc6a7-79a5-49b7-b1ed-a89a37f2fe8b-web.js

e82dc6a7-79a5-49b7-b1ed-a89a37f2fe8b-web.js

662 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

11 ms

jquery.foundation.orbit.js

jquery.foundation.orbit.js

274 ms

DesignCurial.sdc.js

DesignCurial.sdc.js

301 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

140 ms

ga.js

ga.js

65 ms

close.png

close.png

94 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

97 ms

prev.png

prev.png

96 ms

next.png

next.png

94 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

158 ms

skin-left.jpg

skin-left.jpg

247 ms

skin-right.jpg

skin-right.jpg

338 ms

logo.png

logo.png

159 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

159 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

532 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

369 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

544 ms

subscribe_to_blueprint.png

subscribe_to_blueprint.png

247 ms

subscribe_to_fx.png

subscribe_to_fx.png

337 ms

directory_lamp.jpg

directory_lamp.jpg

338 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

531 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

442 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

586 ms

main.jpeg

main.jpeg

543 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

544 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

544 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

562 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

688 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

671 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

620 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

621 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

670 ms

main.jpg

main.jpg

732 ms

thumbnail.jpg

thumbnail.jpg

798 ms

thumbnail.jpg

thumbnail.jpg

778 ms

thumbnail.jpg

thumbnail.jpg

1021 ms

product_directory_icon_white_small.png

product_directory_icon_white_small.png

714 ms

SofiaProLight-webfont.svg

SofiaProLight-webfont.svg

774 ms

2sDcZG1Wl4LcnbuCNWgzaGW8Kb8VZA.ttf

2sDcZG1Wl4LcnbuCNWgzaGW8Kb8VZA.ttf

65 ms

2sDfZG1Wl4LcnbuKjk0jRUe0Aw.ttf

2sDfZG1Wl4LcnbuKjk0jRUe0Aw.ttf

66 ms

editors_pick_ribbon.png

editors_pick_ribbon.png

770 ms

medium_rectangle_left_shadow.gif

medium_rectangle_left_shadow.gif

779 ms

medium_rectangle_right_shadow.gif

medium_rectangle_right_shadow.gif

824 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

18 ms

grey-bg.png

grey-bg.png

765 ms

wtid.js

wtid.js

517 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

27 ms

ppub_config

ppub_config

92 ms

ads

ads

51 ms

ads

ads

60 ms

ads

ads

76 ms

ads

ads

58 ms

ads

ads

65 ms

container.html

container.html

28 ms

9248514881916009444

9248514881916009444

107 ms

window_focus.js

window_focus.js

107 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

22 ms

dcs.gif

dcs.gif

109 ms

counter.js

counter.js

50 ms

add-hit

add-hit

245 ms

print.css

print.css

75 ms

Accessibility Review

light.co.uk accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

light.co.uk best practices score

42

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

light.co.uk SEO score

89

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Light.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Light.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

light.co.uk

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