Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ncma.org.uk

PACEY: Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years

Page Load Speed

11.2 sec in total

First Response

295 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

4.8 sec

About Website

Welcome to ncma.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check Ncma best content right away, or after learning these important things about ncma.org.uk

Welcome to PACEY, the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years. We support childminders, early years workers, and nannies in England and Wales.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncma.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 295 ms and then it took 10.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ncma.org.uk performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,440 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.063

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ncma.org.uk

295 ms

www.pacey.org.uk

265 ms

www.pacey.org.uk

523 ms

style.min.css

247 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.4.custom.css

372 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ncma.org.uk, 66% (41 requests) were made to Pacey.org.uk and 5% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Pacey.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 413.0 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Ncma.org.uk main page is 2.7 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. 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. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 221.6 kB

  • Original 272.7 kB
  • After minification 267.8 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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. 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 221.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 184.0 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Ncma images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 217.2 kB
  • After minification 217.1 kB
  • After compression 210.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 888 B

  • Original 6.4 kB
  • After minification 6.2 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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. Ncma.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 888 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (47%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ncma. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ncma.org.uk accessibility score

88

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ncma.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ncma.org.uk SEO score

82

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

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 Ncma.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 Ncma.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 Ncma. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: