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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

aaschool.ac.uk

AA School

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

236 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

53 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aaschool.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 236 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aaschool.ac.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aaschool.ac.uk

236 ms

www.aaschool.ac.uk

256 ms

www.aaschool.ac.uk

492 ms

js

49 ms

gtm.js

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Aaschool.ac.uk, 13% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Aaschool.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 373.8 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

697.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aaschool.ac.uk main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 835.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 5.5 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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 651 B, which is 12% 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 3.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 175.7 kB

  • Original 835.6 kB
  • After minification 835.6 kB
  • After compression 659.9 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 175.7 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 194.5 kB

  • Original 229.8 kB
  • After minification 227.2 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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. Aaschool.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 194.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (78%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

4

  • AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AA School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

aaschool.ac.uk

aaschool.ac.uk

236 ms

www.aaschool.ac.uk

www.aaschool.ac.uk

256 ms

www.aaschool.ac.uk

www.aaschool.ac.uk

492 ms

js

js

49 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

109 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

jquery-latest.min.js

320 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

271 ms

js

js

84 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

35 ms

AA.css

AA.css

611 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

45 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

303 ms

slick-theme.min.css

slick-theme.min.css

303 ms

react.production.min.js

react.production.min.js

302 ms

react-dom.production.min.js

react-dom.production.min.js

530 ms

AA.js

AA.js

1003 ms

worldpay.js

worldpay.js

106 ms

js

js

58 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

18 ms

collect

collect

23 ms

hotjar-2975957.js

hotjar-2975957.js

139 ms

modules.1a30a0a67c3c23c13060.js

modules.1a30a0a67c3c23c13060.js

14 ms

Parma-Normal-New.otf

Parma-Normal-New.otf

163 ms

Accessibility Review

aaschool.ac.uk accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

aaschool.ac.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

aaschool.ac.uk SEO score

82

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

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 Aaschool.ac.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 Aaschool.ac.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

aaschool.ac.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of AA School. 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: