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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

rspb.com

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

377 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

559 ms

About Website

Visit rspb.com now to see the best up-to-date RSPB content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rspb.com

The RSPB is the UK charity working to secure a healthy environment for birds and all wildlife, helping to create a better world for everyone. We depend on the goodwill and financial support of people ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rspb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 377 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

rspb.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rspb.com

377 ms

www.rspb.org.uk

492 ms

bootstrap.min_20150326025933.css

391 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min_20121203040722.css

254 ms

rspbstyle_20160318014124.css

436 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rspb.com, 70% (55 requests) were made to Rspb.org.uk and 8% (6 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Rspb.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (31%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rspb.com main page is 4.8 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 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 149.3 kB

  • Original 177.5 kB
  • After minification 129.8 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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 47.7 kB, which is 27% 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 149.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 755.6 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Obviously, RSPB needs image optimization as it can save up to 755.6 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 376.5 kB

  • Original 619.4 kB
  • After minification 610.9 kB
  • After compression 242.8 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 376.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 213.1 kB

  • Original 255.6 kB
  • After minification 242.3 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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. Rspb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (32%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RSPB. 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

rspb.com accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rspb.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rspb.com SEO score

98

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

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 Rspb.com 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 Rspb.com 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 RSPB. 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: