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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

sciword.co.uk

Scientific Word Ltd. - Distributing Scientific Word/WorkPlace since 1990

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

301 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

360 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sciword.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 301 ms and then it took 2.8 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

sciword.co.uk performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.875

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sciword.co.uk

301 ms

sciword.co.uk

494 ms

base.css

278 ms

bp412.css

242 ms

bp480.css

245 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Sciword.co.uk, 8% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Sciword.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

909.2 kB

After Optimization

819.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sciword.co.uk main page is 909.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 770.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 36.1 kB
  • After minification 35.4 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 25.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 770.7 kB
  • After minification 756.2 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. Sci Word images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 96.2 kB
  • After minification 96.2 kB
  • After compression 48.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 48.1 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 6.1 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Sciword.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (51%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sci Word. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 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

sciword.co.uk accessibility score

64

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

sciword.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sciword.co.uk SEO score

67

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

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 Sciword.co.uk 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 Sciword.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 Sci Word. 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: