Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

theurbanwanderer.co.uk

The Urban Wanderer | Manchester based Travel and Outdoor Blog

Page Load Speed

40.7 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

26.4 sec

Page Rendered

11.6 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Urban Wanderer content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about theurbanwanderer.co.uk

For curious minds & wandering feet wherever they may be. The Urban Wanderer is a Manchester Travel & Outdoor blog to encourage you to #exploreeverywhere

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theurbanwanderer.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 38 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

theurbanwanderer.co.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value42.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value34,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.106

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theurbanwanderer.co.uk

2718 ms

shareaholic.js

148 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

270 ms

style.css

412 ms

style.min.css

355 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Theurbanwanderer.co.uk, 11% (15 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 11% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.4 sec) relates to the external source Trips100.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 819.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Theurbanwanderer.co.uk main page is 3.6 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. 75% 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 230.3 kB

  • Original 285.7 kB
  • After minification 284.5 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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 230.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. The Urban Wanderer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 356.8 kB

  • Original 563.7 kB
  • After minification 487.4 kB
  • After compression 206.9 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 356.8 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 198.0 kB

  • Original 250.2 kB
  • After minification 227.3 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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. Theurbanwanderer.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 198.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (57%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Urban Wanderer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theurbanwanderer.co.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 match their roles

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

theurbanwanderer.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

theurbanwanderer.co.uk SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Theurbanwanderer.co.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 Theurbanwanderer.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

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