Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

nhbf.co.uk

Hairdressing & Beauty Salon & Barber Trade Association - National Hair & Beauty Federation

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

770 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

338 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nhbf.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 770 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

nhbf.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,260 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nhbf.co.uk

770 ms

nhbf.co.uk

290 ms

www.nhbf.co.uk

516 ms

189 ms

screen-nhf.27f0a2d13c6ef97583f58a445e91a25c.css

407 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Nhbf.co.uk, 10% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (872 ms) belongs to the original domain Nhbf.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

314.3 kB

After Optimization

243.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Nhbf.co.uk main page is 314.3 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 210.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 45.0 kB
  • After minification 41.7 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 36.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 210.9 kB
  • After minification 210.9 kB
  • After compression 176.4 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 34.5 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 58.4 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. Nhbf.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (40%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nhbf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nhbf.co.uk accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

nhbf.co.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nhbf.co.uk SEO score

83

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

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nhbf.co.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 Nhbf.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Nhbf. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: