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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    28% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

simongray.org.uk

Playwright, Diarist, Novelist and Screenwriter - Simon Gray

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

687 ms

simongray.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Simon Gray content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about simongray.org.uk

Simon Gray was born on Hayling Island on 21st October 1936. He wrote more than 30 stage plays, five novels and numerous plays for TV, radio and film.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Simongray.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.4 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

simongray.org.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value62,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value83.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

simongray.org.uk

1054 ms

webfont.js

9 ms

css

34 ms

fontawesome.css

232 ms

style.css

529 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Simongray.org.uk, 9% (10 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Simongray.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (44%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Simongray.org.uk main page is 3.8 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. 85% 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 118.3 kB

  • Original 154.5 kB
  • After minification 153.5 kB
  • After compression 36.2 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 118.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 116.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Simon Gray images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 703.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 940.6 kB
  • After compression 313.6 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 703.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 726.1 kB

  • Original 875.8 kB
  • After minification 803.1 kB
  • After compression 149.6 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. Simongray.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 726.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (48%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Simon Gray. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

simongray.org.uk

simongray.org.uk

1054 ms

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9 ms

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34 ms

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232 ms

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29 ms

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144 ms

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Accessibility Review

simongray.org.uk accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

simongray.org.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

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

SEO Factors

simongray.org.uk SEO score

100

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Simongray.org.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Simongray.org.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

simongray.org.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Simon Gray. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: