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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

hlc.org.uk

Harrogate Ladies' College | Harrogate | Independent School | Harrogate, North Yorkshire

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

329 ms

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

About Website

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Harrogate Ladies' College is an independent school located in Harrogate, North Yorkshire offering a world class education for girls aged 11-18 years (day and boarding) 

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hlc.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 329 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hlc.org.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,290 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hlc.org.uk

329 ms

www.hlc.org.uk

2758 ms

bootstrap.css

670 ms

screen.css

675 ms

css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Hlc.org.uk, 18% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Hlc.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (30%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hlc.org.uk main page is 3.7 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. 75% 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. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 63.6 kB

  • Original 79.8 kB
  • After minification 66.8 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 13.0 kB, which is 16% 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 63.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 368.6 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Obviously, Hlc needs image optimization as it can save up to 368.6 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 323.5 kB

  • Original 731.4 kB
  • After minification 695.5 kB
  • After compression 407.9 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 323.5 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 372.5 kB

  • Original 467.2 kB
  • After minification 418.4 kB
  • After compression 94.7 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. Hlc.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 372.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (61%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hlc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hlc.org.uk accessibility score

92

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hlc.org.uk best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hlc.org.uk SEO score

91

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hlc.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 Hlc.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 Hlc. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: