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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 43

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

rideforthechild.co.uk

Ride For The Child | Cycling the width of America to raise money for children with deafness or cancer

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

23 ms

Resources Loaded

792 ms

Page Rendered

551 ms

About Website

Welcome to rideforthechild.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Ride For The Child best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about rideforthechild.co.uk

Cycling from San Fran to New York, 3200 miles, 28 days, 1st September 2016. Raising money for children with deafness or cancer.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rideforthechild.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 23 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rideforthechild.co.uk performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rideforthechild.co.uk

23 ms

rideforthechild.co.uk

35 ms

style.css

14 ms

css

38 ms

jquery.min.js

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Rideforthechild.co.uk, 9% (4 requests) were made to Followmychallenge.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (480 ms) relates to the external source Followmychallenge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

659.5 kB

After Optimization

616.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rideforthechild.co.uk main page is 659.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 436.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 47.7 kB
  • After minification 39.3 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 8.4 kB, which is 18% 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 39.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 436.0 kB
  • After minification 433.9 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. Ride For The Child images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 75 B

  • Original 166.2 kB
  • After minification 166.2 kB
  • After compression 166.1 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 559 B

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Rideforthechild.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (39%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ride For The Child. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

rideforthechild.co.uk accessibility score

43

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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.

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

rideforthechild.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

rideforthechild.co.uk SEO score

71

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Rideforthechild.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 Rideforthechild.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 description is not detected on the main page of Ride For The Child. 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: