Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

arkha.org.uk

Ark | Ark Housing

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

545 ms

arkha.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ark Ha content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about arkha.org.uk

We support people to live good lives, at home and in their community. ARK Housing Association manage over 400 properties across 13 Scottish Local Authorities, and employ over 1000 staff. ARK provid...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arkha.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arkha.org.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,600 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.289

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.arkha.org.uk

1131 ms

cel2xyo.js

200 ms

flexsliderTop.css

107 ms

style.css

288 ms

jquery.min.js

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Arkha.org.uk, 11% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Arkha.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 599.8 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Arkha.org.uk main page is 2.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 32.7 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 14.3 kB, which is 30% 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 38.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 142.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Ark Ha images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 292.4 kB

  • Original 522.2 kB
  • After minification 509.0 kB
  • After compression 229.8 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 292.4 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 126.8 kB

  • Original 152.3 kB
  • After minification 136.8 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. Arkha.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 126.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (43%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ark Ha. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

arkha.org.uk accessibility score

62

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

arkha.org.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

arkha.org.uk SEO score

74

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Arkha.org.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 Arkha.org.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 description is not detected on the main page of Ark Ha. 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: