Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

ability-world.com

Ability World ¦ Communication & Access Products ¦ Display Boards

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

597 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

230 ms

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About Website

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Ability World is a leading UK manufacturer and supplier of AAC communication aids, communication boards, choice boards, access products, learning resources and portable display boards

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ability-world.com page load time and found that the first response time was 597 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ability-world.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.181

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ability-world.com

597 ms

jquery.min.js

101 ms

css

29 ms

fa.css

112 ms

styles.dymc.css

231 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ability-world.com, 33% (15 requests) were made to Files.ekmcdn.com and 24% (11 requests) were made to 15.cdn.ekm.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (597 ms) belongs to the original domain Ability-world.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

625.8 kB

After Optimization

572.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Ability-world.com main page is 625.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 415.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 44.2 kB

  • Original 54.9 kB
  • After minification 39.7 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 15.2 kB, which is 28% 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 44.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 415.2 kB
  • After minification 415.2 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. Ability World images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 94.0 kB
  • After minification 94.0 kB
  • After compression 93.0 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.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 61.7 kB
  • After minification 61.5 kB
  • After compression 54.0 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. Ability-world.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (46%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ability World. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ability-world.com accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

ability-world.com 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

ability-world.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ability-world.com 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 Ability-world.com 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 Ability World. 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: