Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

sicknote.org.uk

Nick Shaw // Sicknote

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

315 ms

Resources Loaded

711 ms

Page Rendered

138 ms

sicknote.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit sicknote.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Sicknote content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sicknote.org.uk

Web Developer. Website & Social Media Manager for Woking FC. M.E/C.F.S. sufferer. Interested in Formula 1 / Cricket / Photography.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sicknote.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 315 ms and then it took 849 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sicknote.org.uk performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.11

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sicknote.org.uk

315 ms

css

26 ms

me.png

394 ms

twitter.png

222 ms

facebook.png

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Sicknote.org.uk, 18% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 18% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (394 ms) belongs to the original domain Sicknote.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

141.8 kB

After Optimization

125.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Sicknote.org.uk main page is 141.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 120.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 3.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 120.0 kB
  • After minification 106.3 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, Sicknote needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sicknote. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

sicknote.org.uk accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

sicknote.org.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

sicknote.org.uk SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Sicknote.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 Sicknote.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 Sicknote. 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: