Design Militia

What Dr Urls found on designmilitia.co.uk

From the audit of their public home page on 21/10/2026, worst first. Each links to what it means and how it is fixed.

• medium
  Cache-Control header missing

  Proper caching prevents browsers from re-downloading unchanged resources, dramatically improving repeat visit performance.

• medium
  Image missing alt attribute

  Image alt text is the primary way search engines understand image content.

• medium
  Images missing width and height attributes

  Missing image dimensions are the leading cause of Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), a Core Web Vital and ranking factor.

• medium
  Missing canonical tag

  Canonical tags are the strongest signal you can send to search engines about which URL should be indexed when multiple URLs serve similar content.

• medium
  Open Graph og:image tag missing

  Social media posts with images receive significantly more engagement than text-only posts.

• medium
  Render-blocking CSS or JavaScript

  Render-blocking resources directly impact First Contentful Paint (FCP) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), both Core Web Vitals metrics.

• medium
  Scripts without async or defer

  Synchronous scripts halt HTML parsing while the browser downloads and executes them.

• medium
  Text resources not compressed

  Uncompressed text resources unnecessarily increase page load time and bandwidth consumption.

• medium
  Thin content (too few words)

  Google's Helpful Content system explicitly targets thin, low-value pages.

• low
  Broken heading hierarchy

  Heading hierarchy provides a semantic outline of the page content.

• low
  Missing preconnect hints for critical origins

  Each new origin connection requires DNS resolution, TCP handshake, and TLS negotiation, adding 100-300ms of latency.

• low
  Open Graph og:description tag missing

  Without og:description, social platforms extract text from the page content, which often produces awkward or irrelevant snippets.

And 8 more. 7 security findings are not listed on this public page; the site's owner sees them in a full audit after claiming it.