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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

pen-and-sword.co.uk

Pen and Sword Books: Military History and Nostalgia Book Publishers

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

369 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

358 ms

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About Website

Welcome to pen-and-sword.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Pen And Sword best content for Pakistan right away, or after learning these important things about pen-and-sword.co.uk

Publishers of a Variety of Military, Aviation, Maritime, Local History, True Crime and Nostalgia Books.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pen-and-sword.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 369 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pen-and-sword.co.uk performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pen-and-sword.co.uk

369 ms

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

796 ms

style.css

301 ms

font-awesome.min.css

347 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

355 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Pen-and-sword.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (961 ms) belongs to the original domain Pen-and-sword.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 943.2 kB (34%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pen-and-sword.co.uk main page is 2.8 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 258.5 kB

  • Original 305.8 kB
  • After minification 261.6 kB
  • After compression 47.3 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 44.3 kB, which is 14% 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 258.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Pen And Sword images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 487.7 kB

  • Original 727.4 kB
  • After minification 711.6 kB
  • After compression 239.7 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 487.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 184.2 kB

  • Original 229.2 kB
  • After minification 228.9 kB
  • After compression 45.0 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. Pen-and-sword.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 184.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (18%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

53

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pen And Sword. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pen-and-sword.co.uk

pen-and-sword.co.uk

369 ms

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

796 ms

style.css

style.css

301 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

347 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

355 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

32 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

126 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

316 ms

typeahead.min.js

typeahead.min.js

317 ms

hogan-2.0.0.js

hogan-2.0.0.js

369 ms

main.js

main.js

371 ms

jquery.dotdotdot.min.js

jquery.dotdotdot.min.js

371 ms

ticker.js

ticker.js

372 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

12 ms

pslogo.gif

pslogo.gif

144 ms

facebook-square.png

facebook-square.png

139 ms

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142 ms

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youtube.png

139 ms

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140 ms

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210 ms

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211 ms

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211 ms

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497 ms

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688 ms

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583 ms

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503 ms

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705 ms

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706 ms

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671 ms

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886 ms

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961 ms

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64 ms

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65 ms

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86 ms

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859 ms

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870 ms

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91 ms

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32 ms

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805 ms

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807 ms

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868 ms

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879 ms

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56 ms

2228

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38 ms

Accessibility Review

pen-and-sword.co.uk accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

pen-and-sword.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

pen-and-sword.co.uk SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Pen-and-sword.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 Pen-and-sword.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

pen-and-sword.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pen And Sword. 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: