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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

ascend.org.uk

ASCEND Charity UK - Education & Employability Support in Hertfordshire

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

331 ms

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About Website

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

ASCEND challenges people's perceived barriers to education and training & runs social, wellbeing and learning events for the Hertfordshire community.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ascend.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 3.7 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

ascend.org.uk performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,640 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.912

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ascend.org.uk

210 ms

www.ascend.org.uk

722 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

129 ms

style.css

209 ms

bootstrap.css

220 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Ascend.org.uk, 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ascend.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (6%)

Content Size

19.3 MB

After Optimization

18.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ascend.org.uk main page is 19.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 18.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 74.3 kB

  • Original 91.9 kB
  • After minification 89.3 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 74.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 974.9 kB

  • Original 18.7 MB
  • After minification 17.7 MB

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. ASCEND images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 365.1 kB
  • After minification 364.7 kB
  • After compression 298.7 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 66.5 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 130.8 kB
  • After minification 130.6 kB
  • After compression 104.5 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. Ascend.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (75%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ASCEND. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ascend.org.uk

ascend.org.uk

210 ms

www.ascend.org.uk

www.ascend.org.uk

722 ms

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129 ms

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style.css

209 ms

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220 ms

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234 ms

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244 ms

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247 ms

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29 ms

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248 ms

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289 ms

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292 ms

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40 ms

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329 ms

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367 ms

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406 ms

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409 ms

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517 ms

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542 ms

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565 ms

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571 ms

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660 ms

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656 ms

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604 ms

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109 ms

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24 ms

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16 ms

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609 ms

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611 ms

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677 ms

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Accessibility Review

ascend.org.uk accessibility score

63

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

ascend.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ascend.org.uk SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Ascend.org.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 Ascend.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

ascend.org.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of ASCEND. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: