Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

thinkdefence.co.uk

Home - Think Defence

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

273 ms

thinkdefence.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Think Defence content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thinkdefence.co.uk

Think Defence is a UK-focused defence and security blog with short-form and long-form articles on subjects grouped into the following categories.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thinkdefence.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thinkdefence.co.uk performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thinkdefence.co.uk

261 ms

www.thinkdefence.co.uk

505 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

237 ms

layout.css

10 ms

style.css

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Thinkdefence.co.uk, 67% (70 requests) were made to U0v052dm9wl3gxo0y3lx0u44wz.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (505 ms) belongs to the original domain Thinkdefence.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (77%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

554.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Thinkdefence.co.uk main page is 2.4 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. 80% 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. CSS take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 78.2 kB

  • Original 93.9 kB
  • After minification 90.2 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 78.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 155.5 kB
  • After minification 138.5 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, Think Defence needs image optimization as it can save up to 17.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 299.8 kB

  • Original 501.8 kB
  • After minification 466.8 kB
  • After compression 202.1 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 299.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 197.8 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. Thinkdefence.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (48%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Think Defence. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thinkdefence.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thinkdefence.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thinkdefence.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Thinkdefence.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 Thinkdefence.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 Think Defence. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: