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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

thegarageblog.co.uk

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

559 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

250 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegarageblog.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 559 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegarageblog.co.uk performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegarageblog.co.uk

559 ms

style.css

80 ms

styleBothSides.css

129 ms

prettyPhoto.css

145 ms

shortcodes.css

147 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Thegarageblog.co.uk, 8% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to I110.photobucket.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (559 ms) belongs to the original domain Thegarageblog.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 345.3 kB (37%)

Content Size

945.0 kB

After Optimization

599.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegarageblog.co.uk main page is 945.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 478.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 37.5 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 29.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 478.8 kB
  • After minification 453.3 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. Thegarageblog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 213.1 kB

  • Original 334.3 kB
  • After minification 326.2 kB
  • After compression 121.2 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 213.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 77.0 kB

  • Original 92.2 kB
  • After minification 78.0 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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. Thegarageblog.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (52%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thegarageblog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thegarageblog.co.uk

thegarageblog.co.uk

559 ms

style.css

style.css

80 ms

styleBothSides.css

styleBothSides.css

129 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

145 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

147 ms

buttons-shortcode.css

buttons-shortcode.css

141 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

mediaelementplayer.min.css

142 ms

wp-mediaelement.css

wp-mediaelement.css

146 ms

ajax-contact.css

ajax-contact.css

192 ms

style.css

style.css

193 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

340 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

200 ms

player.js

player.js

209 ms

powerpress-mejs.js

powerpress-mejs.js

206 ms

ajax-contact.js

ajax-contact.js

257 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

5 ms

counter_xhtml.js

counter_xhtml.js

12 ms

scripts-active.js

scripts-active.js

269 ms

myStuff.js

myStuff.js

265 ms

supersleight.plugin.js

supersleight.plugin.js

270 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

271 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

322 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

405 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

360 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

358 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

227 ms

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236 ms

feed-icon32x32.png

feed-icon32x32.png

49 ms

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248 ms

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7d3ff36a-2b85-4d35-a83b-6a070999cdff_zpsbcbedff7.jpg

227 ms

banner185x185Apple-Baycopy_zps55d56936.jpg

banner185x185Apple-Baycopy_zps55d56936.jpg

233 ms

darkgreytexture.jpg

darkgreytexture.jpg

185 ms

bg-top.png

bg-top.png

68 ms

bg-center.png

bg-center.png

183 ms

socCarEngine_4.jpg

socCarEngine_4.jpg

230 ms

completeNavBg.png

completeNavBg.png

69 ms

search.png

search.png

224 ms

Twitter.png

Twitter.png

230 ms

RSS.png

RSS.png

223 ms

Facebook.png

Facebook.png

224 ms

facebookterraclean.jpg

facebookterraclean.jpg

328 ms

ga.js

ga.js

5 ms

link.html

link.html

318 ms

ca-pub-1324326375343296.js

ca-pub-1324326375343296.js

209 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

37 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

163 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

175 ms

bg-bottom.png

bg-bottom.png

181 ms

t.php

t.php

177 ms

ads

ads

28 ms

osd.js

osd.js

18 ms

ads

ads

26 ms

Accessibility Review

thegarageblog.co.uk accessibility score

86

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

thegarageblog.co.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

SEO Factors

thegarageblog.co.uk SEO score

92

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thegarageblog.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Thegarageblog.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

thegarageblog.co.uk

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