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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

mikehowarth.co.uk

Mike Howarth Mike Howarth - Bikepacking, Adventure Photography, Travel

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

432 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

772 ms

mikehowarth.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to mikehowarth.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Mike Howarth best content right away, or after learning these important things about mikehowarth.co.uk

Specialising in outdoor and travel photography. Writing and stories from adventures across the globe. UK, Europe, Asia and the Americas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mikehowarth.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 432 ms and then it took 3.8 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

mikehowarth.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mikehowarth.co.uk

432 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

13 ms

flexslider.css

468 ms

tt_shortcode.css

270 ms

styles.css

619 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Mikehowarth.co.uk, 7% (3 requests) were made to S.gravatar.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to I2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Mikehowarth.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 kB (0%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mikehowarth.co.uk main page is 2.1 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Mike Howarth images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 222 B

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 14.0 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 23.2 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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. Mikehowarth.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (84%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mike Howarth. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.mikehowarth.co.uk

www.mikehowarth.co.uk

432 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

13 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

468 ms

tt_shortcode.css

tt_shortcode.css

270 ms

styles.css

styles.css

619 ms

style.css

style.css

902 ms

css

css

16 ms

css

css

33 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

28 ms

style.css

style.css

17 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

1151 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

31 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

35 ms

svgxuse.js

svgxuse.js

40 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

48 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

55 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

60 ms

photon.js

photon.js

65 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

73 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

79 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

devicepx-jetpack.js

6 ms

gprofiles.js

gprofiles.js

9 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

84 ms

jquery.pageslide.min.js

jquery.pageslide.min.js

89 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

95 ms

jquery.actual.min.js

jquery.actual.min.js

101 ms

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

106 ms

jquery.waitforimages.min.js

jquery.waitforimages.min.js

112 ms

jquery.isotope.min.js

jquery.isotope.min.js

118 ms

jquery.waitforimages.min.js

jquery.waitforimages.min.js

124 ms

theme_trust.js

theme_trust.js

130 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

135 ms

e-202241.js

e-202241.js

3 ms

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678 ms

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23838541306_b79b689ea4_b.jpg

106 ms

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21407457722_83af892d79_b.jpg

105 ms

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121 ms

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S6u9w4BMUTPHh50XSwiPHw.woff

15 ms

_Xmt-HQyrTKWaw25jKOe.woff

_Xmt-HQyrTKWaw25jKOe.woff

54 ms

hovercard.min.css

hovercard.min.css

8 ms

services.min.css

services.min.css

9 ms

Accessibility Review

mikehowarth.co.uk accessibility score

71

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

mikehowarth.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

mikehowarth.co.uk SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mikehowarth.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 Mikehowarth.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

mikehowarth.co.uk

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