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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

marksimons.co.uk

Freelance Web Developer & Designer Dubai | ExpressionEngine / Wordpress, XHTML, CSS, jQuery, SEO | Mark Simons - Southampton, Dubai

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

340 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

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About Website

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Mark Simons is a freelance front end website developer and website designer in Dubai, UAE. Available to work internationally, Southampton, London and Dubai. Specialising in XHTML/CSS/jQuery, Expressio...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marksimons.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 340 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marksimons.co.uk performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marksimons.co.uk

340 ms

www.marksimons.co.uk

367 ms

styles.css

87 ms

vew8rku.js

154 ms

all.js

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Marksimons.co.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Marksimons.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 122.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marksimons.co.uk main page is 3.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 31.8 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.9 kB, which is 12% 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 24.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Mark Simons images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 85.8 kB

  • Original 169.1 kB
  • After minification 165.8 kB
  • After compression 83.3 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 85.8 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 5.8 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Marksimons.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (19%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mark Simons. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

marksimons.co.uk

marksimons.co.uk

340 ms

www.marksimons.co.uk

www.marksimons.co.uk

367 ms

styles.css

styles.css

87 ms

vew8rku.js

vew8rku.js

154 ms

all.js

all.js

52 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

4 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

jquery.tools.min.js

85 ms

jquery.tweet.js

jquery.tweet.js

207 ms

ga.js

ga.js

50 ms

bg-head.jpg

bg-head.jpg

100 ms

graphic-logo.png

graphic-logo.png

343 ms

graphic-call.png

graphic-call.png

328 ms

call-break.gif

call-break.gif

166 ms

bg-spikes.gif

bg-spikes.gif

177 ms

bg-content.jpg

bg-content.jpg

426 ms

graphic-portfolio.png

graphic-portfolio.png

190 ms

port-bt.jpg

port-bt.jpg

259 ms

bg-portfolio-item.png

bg-portfolio-item.png

266 ms

port-break.gif

port-break.gif

282 ms

port-lamina.jpg

port-lamina.jpg

432 ms

port-whue.jpg

port-whue.jpg

354 ms

port-whu.jpg

port-whu.jpg

369 ms

port-ckp.jpg

port-ckp.jpg

409 ms

port-tewf.jpg

port-tewf.jpg

429 ms

port-nt.jpg

port-nt.jpg

435 ms

port-c2i.jpg

port-c2i.jpg

455 ms

port-gad.jpg

port-gad.jpg

490 ms

port-son.jpg

port-son.jpg

505 ms

port-chief.jpg

port-chief.jpg

515 ms

port-cf.jpg

port-cf.jpg

592 ms

port-dnet.jpg

port-dnet.jpg

596 ms

port-damar.jpg

port-damar.jpg

626 ms

port-gnr.jpg

port-gnr.jpg

572 ms

ico-linkedin.png

ico-linkedin.png

587 ms

ico-twitter.png

ico-twitter.png

602 ms

ico-facebook.png

ico-facebook.png

654 ms

bg-box.png

bg-box.png

749 ms

gal-whu.jpg

gal-whu.jpg

1033 ms

gal-nt.jpg

gal-nt.jpg

1001 ms

gal-c2i.jpg

gal-c2i.jpg

860 ms

gal-gad.jpg

gal-gad.jpg

967 ms

gal-chief.jpg

gal-chief.jpg

894 ms

gal-cf.jpg

gal-cf.jpg

1072 ms

gal-dnet.jpg

gal-dnet.jpg

1034 ms

76 ms

ping

ping

54 ms

0sTQzbapM8j.js

0sTQzbapM8j.js

71 ms

0sTQzbapM8j.js

0sTQzbapM8j.js

103 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

20 ms

d

d

30 ms

gal-damar.jpg

gal-damar.jpg

1074 ms

like.php

like.php

69 ms

gal-gnr.jpg

gal-gnr.jpg

1119 ms

Iv-bqISgsE7.js

Iv-bqISgsE7.js

102 ms

lH1ibRl5GKq.png

lH1ibRl5GKq.png

106 ms

p.gif

p.gif

16 ms

gal-whue.jpg

gal-whue.jpg

1005 ms

gal-sondrel.jpg

gal-sondrel.jpg

1025 ms

gal-tewf.jpg

gal-tewf.jpg

1024 ms

gal-lamina.jpg

gal-lamina.jpg

983 ms

gal-ckp.jpg

gal-ckp.jpg

1044 ms

gal-bt.jpg

gal-bt.jpg

1055 ms

Accessibility Review

marksimons.co.uk accessibility score

83

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

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

Best Practices

marksimons.co.uk best practices score

58

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

SEO Factors

marksimons.co.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Marksimons.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 Marksimons.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

marksimons.co.uk

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