Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    38% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

army.mod.uk

The British Army homepage | The British Army

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

969 ms

army.mod.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Army content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about army.mod.uk

The British Army protects the United Kingdom’s interests at home and abroad, providing a safe and secure environment in which all British citizens can live and prosper.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Army.mod.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 4.2 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

army.mod.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,510 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value62.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

army.mod.uk

41 ms

army.mod.uk

449 ms

www.army.mod.uk

1629 ms

otSDKStub.js

40 ms

coo6yaz.js

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Army.mod.uk, 12% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 12% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Army.mod.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.1 kB (44%)

Content Size

325.9 kB

After Optimization

182.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Army.mod.uk main page is 325.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 177.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 142.9 kB

  • Original 177.8 kB
  • After minification 163.4 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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 142.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 27.8 kB
  • After minification 27.8 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. Army images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 131 B

  • Original 118.5 kB
  • After minification 118.5 kB
  • After compression 118.4 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 128 B

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Army.mod.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (40%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Army. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

army.mod.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

army.mod.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

army.mod.uk 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 Army.mod.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 Army.mod.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 data is detected on the main page of Army. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: