Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

bases.org.uk

The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences | BASES

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

bases.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit bases.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date BASES content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bases.org.uk

The largest sport and exercise sciences network in the UK - The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bases.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bases.org.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.959

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bases.org.uk

181 ms

www.bases.org.uk

585 ms

core.php

221 ms

style.php

252 ms

custom.php

257 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Bases.org.uk, 16% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (991 ms) belongs to the original domain Bases.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Bases.org.uk main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

  • Original 74.6 kB
  • After minification 74.1 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 62.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 70.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. BASES images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 169.3 kB
  • After minification 169.3 kB
  • After compression 167.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 507 B

  • Original 104.4 kB
  • After minification 104.4 kB
  • After compression 103.9 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. Bases.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (63%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BASES. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bases.org.uk accessibility score

85

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

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

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

bases.org.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

bases.org.uk SEO score

81

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bases.org.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 Bases.org.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 BASES. 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: