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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

talkaboutlocal.org.uk

Talk About Local – Hyperlocal in the UK

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

274 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

185 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Talkaboutlocal.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 274 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

talkaboutlocal.org.uk performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.385

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

talkaboutlocal.org.uk

274 ms

font-awesome.css

11 ms

css

31 ms

jrsm.css

239 ms

jquery-ui.theme.min.css

279 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Talkaboutlocal.org.uk, 43% (37 requests) were made to 45vydh1hqek83rggie4xdmk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com and 12% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source 45vydh1hqek83rggie4xdmk1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 887.5 kB (40%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Talkaboutlocal.org.uk main page is 2.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 45.5 kB
  • After minification 42.8 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 34.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 168.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Obviously, Talk About Local needs image optimization as it can save up to 168.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 334.6 kB

  • Original 549.3 kB
  • After minification 532.3 kB
  • After compression 214.7 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 334.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 349.5 kB

  • Original 421.9 kB
  • After minification 394.9 kB
  • After compression 72.5 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. Talkaboutlocal.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 349.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (65%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Talk About Local. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

talkaboutlocal.org.uk

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274 ms

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259 ms

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Accessibility Review

talkaboutlocal.org.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

talkaboutlocal.org.uk best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

talkaboutlocal.org.uk SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Talkaboutlocal.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 Talkaboutlocal.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

talkaboutlocal.org.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Talk About Local. 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: