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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

myrequests.bl.uk

My Requests - The British Library

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

429 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

131 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Myrequests.bl.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 429 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

myrequests.bl.uk performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

myrequests.bl.uk

429 ms

myrequests.bl.uk

540 ms

RTS.css

91 ms

WebResource.axd

176 ms

ScriptResource.axd

592 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Myrequests.bl.uk, 15% (2 requests) were made to Uk.sitestat.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Uk.sitestat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 328.9 kB (82%)

Content Size

401.3 kB

After Optimization

72.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Myrequests.bl.uk main page is 401.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 350.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 8.7 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 1.1 kB, which is 11% 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 6.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 25.1 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. Obviously, My Requests needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 307.6 kB

  • Original 350.1 kB
  • After minification 229.6 kB
  • After compression 42.4 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 307.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Myrequests.bl.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (30%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Requests. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

myrequests.bl.uk

myrequests.bl.uk

429 ms

myrequests.bl.uk

myrequests.bl.uk

540 ms

RTS.css

RTS.css

91 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

176 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

592 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

427 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

340 ms

s

s

1116 ms

logo100.gif

logo100.gif

177 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

184 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

257 ms

Login.gif

Login.gif

270 ms

s

s

266 ms

Accessibility Review

myrequests.bl.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

myrequests.bl.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

myrequests.bl.uk SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

myrequests.bl.uk

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