Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk

Westhoughton Community Network :: Forum For Community Groups in Westhoughton

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

312 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

508 ms

westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Westhoughton Community Network: Forum and network for voluntary and community groups in Westhoughton for information sharing, mutual support and a voice in championing local causes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 312 ms and then it took 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

westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk

312 ms

wcnstyle.css

158 ms

equalcolumns.js

162 ms

cse.js

8 ms

clouds_blue_bg.jpg

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk, 19% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.8 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 77.1 kB

  • Original 96.4 kB
  • After minification 69.9 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.5 kB, which is 27% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 77.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 47.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Westhoughton Community Network images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 163.5 kB
  • After minification 163.5 kB
  • After compression 162.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 17.0 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.9 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (21%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westhoughton Community Network. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk accessibility score

93

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk SEO score

62

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.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 Westhoughtoncommunitynetwork.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Westhoughton Community Network. 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: