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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

kent-gliding-club.co.uk

Gliding for All - Kent Gliding Centre

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

643 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

263 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Kent Gliding Club content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kent-gliding-club.co.uk

An introduction to flying at Kent Gliding Club including links to bookable lessons and courses and latest news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kent-gliding-club.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 643 ms and then it took 1.7 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

kent-gliding-club.co.uk performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kent-gliding-club.co.uk

643 ms

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138 ms

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144 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Kent-gliding-club.co.uk, 9% (4 requests) were made to F.vimeocdn.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (643 ms) belongs to the original domain Kent-gliding-club.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 995.1 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

876.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kent-gliding-club.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. Javascripts take 761.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 37.0 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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. 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 29.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 92.5 kB

  • Original 659.9 kB
  • After minification 567.5 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, Kent Gliding Club needs image optimization as it can save up to 92.5 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 527.7 kB

  • Original 761.0 kB
  • After minification 710.4 kB
  • After compression 233.3 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 527.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 345.3 kB

  • Original 411.4 kB
  • After minification 410.3 kB
  • After compression 66.1 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. Kent-gliding-club.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 345.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (50%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kent Gliding Club. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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643 ms

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136 ms

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138 ms

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144 ms

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307 ms

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112 ms

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Accessibility Review

kent-gliding-club.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.

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

kent-gliding-club.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

kent-gliding-club.co.uk SEO score

86

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kent-gliding-club.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 Kent-gliding-club.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

kent-gliding-club.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kent Gliding Club. 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: