Access guidedogs.org.uk. Guide Dogs | The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,840 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

guidedogs.org.uk

172 ms

guidedogs.org.uk

262 ms

www.guidedogs.org.uk

150 ms

gtm.js

247 ms

2913.js

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Guidedogs.org.uk, 31% (17 requests) were made to Gd-prod.azureedge.net and 9% (5 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Gd-prod.azureedge.net.

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Guidedogs.org.uk main page is 2.5 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. 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. HTML takes 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

Original 1.4 MB
After minification 1.4 MB
After compression 185.2 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. 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 1.2 MB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

Original 892.1 kB
After minification 884.7 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. Guide Dogs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

Original 191.7 kB
After minification 191.5 kB
After compression 159.5 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 32.2 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

Original 58.6 kB
After minification 58.6 kB
After compression 58.6 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. Guidedogs.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guide Dogs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.