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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

base-uk.org

British Association for Supported Employment |

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

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BASE is the national voice for providers of specialist employment support. We promote the principles and delivery of high quality Supported Employment services and work to improve the employment rates...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Base-uk.org page load time and found that the first response time was 230 ms and then it took 2.6 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

base-uk.org performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.465

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

base-uk.org

230 ms

home

227 ms

system.base.css

83 ms

system.menus.css

164 ms

system.messages.css

232 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Base-uk.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (636 ms) belongs to the original domain Base-uk.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 199.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

879.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Base-uk.org main page is 1.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 923.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 42.7 kB

  • Original 53.0 kB
  • After minification 51.9 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 42.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 139.1 kB

  • Original 923.1 kB
  • After minification 784.0 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. Obviously, Base Uk needs image optimization as it can save up to 139.1 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 76.5 kB
  • After minification 76.5 kB
  • After compression 65.0 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 11.4 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 26.5 kB
  • After minification 26.3 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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. Base-uk.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (76%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Base Uk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 41 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

base-uk.org

base-uk.org

230 ms

home

home

227 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

83 ms

system.menus.css

system.menus.css

164 ms

system.messages.css

system.messages.css

232 ms

system.theme.css

system.theme.css

235 ms

field.css

field.css

238 ms

google_cse.css

google_cse.css

239 ms

node.css

node.css

240 ms

search.css

search.css

242 ms

user.css

user.css

310 ms

extlink.css

extlink.css

314 ms

views.css

views.css

317 ms

back_to_top.css

back_to_top.css

320 ms

colorbox_style.css

colorbox_style.css

321 ms

ctools.css

ctools.css

322 ms

jquery.qtip.min.css

jquery.qtip.min.css

19 ms

qtip.css

qtip.css

387 ms

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393 ms

custom_search.css

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396 ms

superfish.css

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399 ms

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400 ms

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401 ms

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466 ms

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473 ms

formalize.css

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475 ms

omega-text.css

omega-text.css

478 ms

omega-branding.css

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478 ms

omega-menu.css

omega-menu.css

480 ms

omega-forms.css

omega-forms.css

543 ms

omega-visuals.css

omega-visuals.css

552 ms

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global.css

555 ms

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557 ms

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558 ms

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559 ms

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622 ms

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631 ms

alpha-default-normal-24.css

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633 ms

jquery.qtip.min.js

jquery.qtip.min.js

16 ms

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63 ms

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33 ms

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alpha-default-normal-12.css

635 ms

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559 ms

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480 ms

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472 ms

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636 ms

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logo.png

88 ms

new-facebook.png

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86 ms

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83 ms

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20 ms

Accessibility Review

base-uk.org accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

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

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

base-uk.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

base-uk.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Base-uk.org 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 Base-uk.org 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

base-uk.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Base Uk. 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: