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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

plumbingacademy.co.uk

Trade Courses & Qualifications | Access Training (Wales)

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

575 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plumbingacademy.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plumbingacademy.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,640 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plumbingacademy.co.uk

193 ms

www.accesstraininguk.co.uk

535 ms

cssslider

255 ms

2294082c.js

482 ms

5a51ebbac2.js

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Plumbingacademy.co.uk, 43% (12 requests) were made to Accesstraininguk.co.uk and 32% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (684 ms) relates to the external source Accesstraininguk.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.6 kB (19%)

Content Size

513.2 kB

After Optimization

416.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Plumbingacademy.co.uk main page is 513.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 369.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 90.0 kB

  • Original 113.3 kB
  • After minification 113.3 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 90.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 369.3 kB
  • After minification 366.6 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. Plumbingacademy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 29.9 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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 3.7 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 187 B

  • Original 666 B
  • After minification 661 B
  • After compression 479 B

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. Plumbingacademy.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 187 B or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (60%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plumbingacademy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

plumbingacademy.co.uk accessibility score

67

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

plumbingacademy.co.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

plumbingacademy.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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