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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

softbay.co.uk

Main Page - SoftBay

Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

452 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

softbay.co.uk screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Softbay.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 452 ms and then it took 8.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

softbay.co.uk performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

softbay.co.uk

452 ms

styles.css

147 ms

softwarebay-logo.gif

158 ms

monitoricon.gif

27 ms

natracker.gif

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Softbay.co.uk, 31% (5 requests) were made to Mitov.com and 19% (3 requests) were made to Mitcalc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (546 ms) relates to the external source Mitcalc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.6 kB (73%)

Content Size

42.1 kB

After Optimization

11.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Softbay.co.uk main page is 42.1 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 33.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 27.9 kB

  • Original 33.6 kB
  • After minification 32.6 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 27.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 5.3 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, Soft Bay needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.5 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 495 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. Softbay.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soft Bay. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

softbay.co.uk

softbay.co.uk

452 ms

styles.css

styles.css

147 ms

softwarebay-logo.gif

softwarebay-logo.gif

158 ms

monitoricon.gif

monitoricon.gif

27 ms

natracker.gif

natracker.gif

127 ms

ico_beam.gif

ico_beam.gif

341 ms

bluemagnetlogo.gif

bluemagnetlogo.gif

95 ms

smartbrologo.gif

smartbrologo.gif

151 ms

regicon.gif

regicon.gif

29 ms

AudioLabIcon.jpg

AudioLabIcon.jpg

217 ms

PlotLabIcon.jpg

PlotLabIcon.jpg

193 ms

SignalLabIcon.jpg

SignalLabIcon.jpg

227 ms

VideoLabIcon.jpg

VideoLabIcon.jpg

271 ms

VisionLabIcon.jpg

VisionLabIcon.jpg

306 ms

ico_boltcon.gif

ico_boltcon.gif

441 ms

ico_chains.gif

ico_chains.gif

546 ms

Accessibility Review

softbay.co.uk accessibility score

62

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

softbay.co.uk best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

softbay.co.uk SEO score

79

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 doesn't use 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 Softbay.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 Softbay.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

softbay.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Soft Bay. 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: