Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

smctc.org.uk

Cycling Club - South Manchester Cyclists Touring Club

Page Load Speed

950 ms in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

553 ms

Page Rendered

341 ms

smctc.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to smctc.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check Smctc best content right away, or after learning these important things about smctc.org.uk

South Manchester CTC is a local cycling club that organises day-rides from South Manchester and also cycle tours in the UK and abroad.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smctc.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 894 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smctc.org.uk performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smctc.org.uk

56 ms

league-spartan.css

24 ms

script.js

30 ms

UX.4.34.11.js

31 ms

script.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Smctc.org.uk, 89% (8 requests) were made to Img1.wsimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (371 ms) relates to the external source Img1.wsimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 171.9 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Smctc.org.uk main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 856.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 92.3 kB

  • Original 107.2 kB
  • After minification 107.1 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 92.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 856.9 kB
  • After minification 856.9 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. Smctc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 79.5 kB

  • Original 210.8 kB
  • After minification 210.8 kB
  • After compression 131.3 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 79.5 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 172 B

  • Original 330 B
  • After minification 304 B
  • After compression 158 B

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. Smctc.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 172 B or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (43%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smctc. 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.

Accessibility Review

smctc.org.uk accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

smctc.org.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

smctc.org.uk SEO score

92

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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