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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

artsaward.org.uk

Arts Award

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

562 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

165 ms

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About Website

Visit artsaward.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Arts Award content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about artsaward.org.uk

Welcome to Arts Award. Arts Awards are recognised qualifications that inspire young people to grow their arts and leadership talents.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Artsaward.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 562 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

artsaward.org.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,200 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

562 ms

layout.css

333 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

641 ms

jwplayer.js

513 ms

jquery.weCookie.js

346 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Artsaward.org.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (998 ms) belongs to the original domain Artsaward.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 230.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

889.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Artsaward.org.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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 863.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 19.5 kB
  • After minification 14.4 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 5.0 kB, which is 26% 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 15.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 69.7 kB

  • Original 863.9 kB
  • After minification 794.2 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. Arts Award images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 131.8 kB

  • Original 219.3 kB
  • After minification 208.8 kB
  • After compression 87.5 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 131.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 17.1 kB
  • After minification 13.2 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Artsaward.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (35%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arts Award. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

562 ms

layout.css

layout.css

333 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

641 ms

jwplayer.js

jwplayer.js

513 ms

jquery.weCookie.js

jquery.weCookie.js

346 ms

functions.js

functions.js

335 ms

login.js

login.js

244 ms

brand

brand

18 ms

brand

brand

65 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

42 ms

body-bg.gif

body-bg.gif

101 ms

login-bg.gif

login-bg.gif

99 ms

button-search.gif

button-search.gif

103 ms

carousel_extra12.jpg

carousel_extra12.jpg

328 ms

carousel_extra13.jpg

carousel_extra13.jpg

171 ms

carousel_extra15.jpg

carousel_extra15.jpg

348 ms

carousel_extra6.jpg

carousel_extra6.jpg

269 ms

carousel_extra9.jpg

carousel_extra9.jpg

418 ms

carousel_extra4_original.jpg

carousel_extra4_original.jpg

519 ms

bronze2.jpg

bronze2.jpg

420 ms

silver2.jpg

silver2.jpg

643 ms

gold2.jpg

gold2.jpg

497 ms

gallery2.jpg

gallery2.jpg

927 ms

news-wk2.jpg

news-wk2.jpg

506 ms

moderationcertification-wk2.jpg

moderationcertification-wk2.jpg

590 ms

run-award-wk2.jpg

run-award-wk2.jpg

666 ms

support-wk2.jpg

support-wk2.jpg

675 ms

logo-trinity.gif

logo-trinity.gif

613 ms

logo-twitter.gif

logo-twitter.gif

678 ms

logo-facebook.gif

logo-facebook.gif

703 ms

logo-arts-award-ace.gif

logo-arts-award-ace.gif

734 ms

header-buttons.gif

header-buttons.gif

751 ms

header-corner.gif

header-corner.gif

760 ms

aa-logo.png

aa-logo.png

762 ms

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

44 ms

jwpsrv.js

jwpsrv.js

84 ms

gapro.js

gapro.js

61 ms

page-content-bg.gif

page-content-bg.gif

763 ms

stripe-bg.png

stripe-bg.png

792 ms

75px_triangles.gif

75px_triangles.gif

811 ms

award-bg-discover.gif

award-bg-discover.gif

820 ms

award-bg-explore.gif

award-bg-explore.gif

824 ms

award-bg-bronze.gif

award-bg-bronze.gif

853 ms

award-bg-silver.gif

award-bg-silver.gif

883 ms

award-bg-gold.gif

award-bg-gold.gif

897 ms

buttons-narrow.gif

buttons-narrow.gif

908 ms

buttons-wide.gif

buttons-wide.gif

911 ms

buttons-artsawardblog.gif

buttons-artsawardblog.gif

944 ms

buttons-adviserhub.gif

buttons-adviserhub.gif

974 ms

collect

collect

25 ms

logged-out-bg.gif

logged-out-bg.gif

919 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

998 ms

close_icon.png

close_icon.png

929 ms

cookie_message_background.png

cookie_message_background.png

772 ms

Accessibility Review

artsaward.org.uk accessibility score

72

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

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

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

artsaward.org.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

artsaward.org.uk SEO score

62

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Artsaward.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 Artsaward.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

artsaward.org.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Arts Award. 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: