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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

youngwriters.co.uk

Poetry & Creative Writing For Schools | Young Writers

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Young Writers content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about youngwriters.co.uk

Young Writers have promoted poetry and creative writing within schools and poetry competitions for the past 33 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Youngwriters.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

youngwriters.co.uk performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

youngwriters.co.uk

233 ms

www.youngwriters.co.uk

430 ms

QapTcha.jquery.css

79 ms

grid.css

153 ms

site_style.css

227 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Youngwriters.co.uk, 7% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Youngwriters.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 591.7 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

678.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Youngwriters.co.uk main page is 1.3 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 485.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 107.4 kB

  • Original 134.0 kB
  • After minification 125.6 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 107.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 53.2 kB

  • Original 485.1 kB
  • After minification 431.9 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, Young Writers needs image optimization as it can save up to 53.2 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

-57%

Potential reduce by 218.0 kB

  • Original 383.5 kB
  • After minification 382.9 kB
  • After compression 165.5 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 218.0 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 213.1 kB

  • Original 267.4 kB
  • After minification 266.4 kB
  • After compression 54.2 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. Youngwriters.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (55%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Young Writers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

youngwriters.co.uk

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233 ms

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430 ms

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79 ms

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153 ms

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227 ms

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302 ms

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376 ms

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78 ms

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89 ms

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64 ms

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64 ms

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656 ms

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57 ms

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Accessibility Review

youngwriters.co.uk accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

youngwriters.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

youngwriters.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Youngwriters.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Youngwriters.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

youngwriters.co.uk

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