Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

boltonschool.org.uk

Bolton School - A Prestigious Independent Day School in Lancashire / Manchester

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

525 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

145 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Bolton School content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about boltonschool.org.uk

TES Independent School of the Year, North-West, leading independent private day school, Nursery, Infants, Juniors, Seniors, Sixth Forms.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boltonschool.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 525 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boltonschool.org.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boltonschool.org.uk

525 ms

css

63 ms

font-awesome.min.css

59 ms

bootstrap.min.css

48 ms

bolton-school-bs4.css

252 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Boltonschool.org.uk, 19% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 14% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (747 ms) belongs to the original domain Boltonschool.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

530.2 kB

After Optimization

468.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Boltonschool.org.uk main page is 530.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 329.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 21.3 kB

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 21.1 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 6.3 kB, which is 23% 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 21.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 113.5 kB
  • After minification 112.0 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. Bolton School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 329.4 kB
  • After minification 329.4 kB
  • After compression 290.3 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 39.2 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.9 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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. Boltonschool.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (62%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bolton 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

boltonschool.org.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

boltonschool.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

boltonschool.org.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

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Boltonschool.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 Boltonschool.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

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