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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

northernskills.co.uk

Northern Skills | Apprenticeships and Training in the North East

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

323 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

About Website

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Northern Skills is an expert apprenticeship and training course provider supporting businesses in the North East and Yorkshire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northernskills.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 323 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northernskills.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northernskills.co.uk

323 ms

northernskills.co.uk

149 ms

www.northernskills.co.uk

235 ms

gtm.js

74 ms

uc.js

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Northernskills.co.uk, 87% (72 requests) were made to Mbro.ac.uk and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Mbro.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 362.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Northernskills.co.uk main page is 3.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 258.5 kB

  • Original 294.6 kB
  • After minification 253.2 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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 41.4 kB, which is 14% 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 258.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Northern Skills images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 87.9 kB

  • Original 113.2 kB
  • After minification 113.2 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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 87.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (22%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

59

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northern Skills. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

northernskills.co.uk accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

northernskills.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

northernskills.co.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

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

    UTF-8

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