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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

befriending.org

D&G Befriending Project | Enriching Young People's Lives in Dumfries & Galloway

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

496 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

366 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to the DG Befriending Project. Our aim is to support and enrich the lives of young people 8 to 18 across Dumfries & Gall...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Befriending.org page load time and found that the first response time was 496 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

befriending.org performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.8

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.befriending.org

496 ms

css

40 ms

style.min.css

97 ms

style.min.css

183 ms

flexslider.css

249 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Befriending.org, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (496 ms) belongs to the original domain Befriending.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Befriending.org main page is 1.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 34.6 kB

  • Original 43.1 kB
  • After minification 38.6 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 34.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Befriending images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 129 B

  • Original 69.0 kB
  • After minification 69.0 kB
  • After compression 68.9 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 526 B

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 29.0 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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. Befriending.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (42%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Befriending. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.befriending.org

www.befriending.org

496 ms

css

css

40 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

97 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

183 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

249 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

250 ms

wp-featherlight.min.css

wp-featherlight.min.css

245 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

325 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

245 ms

script.min.js

script.min.js

268 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

342 ms

js

js

65 ms

wpFeatherlight.pkgd.min.js

wpFeatherlight.pkgd.min.js

348 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

79 ms

dg-befriending-logo.png

dg-befriending-logo.png

95 ms

random5791-children-hands-2000x550.jpg

random5791-children-hands-2000x550.jpg

317 ms

hr-pink.png

hr-pink.png

94 ms

1.-QIB-excellence-2017-400x400.jpg

1.-QIB-excellence-2017-400x400.jpg

165 ms

group-shot-1200x831.jpg

group-shot-1200x831.jpg

318 ms

random5791-children-hands-300x200.jpg

random5791-children-hands-300x200.jpg

94 ms

stock-image-must-replace-300x200.png

stock-image-must-replace-300x200.png

398 ms

random5791-children-hands.jpg

random5791-children-hands.jpg

476 ms

Front-page--300x200.jpg

Front-page--300x200.jpg

171 ms

2023.06.26-Horses4Help-300x200.png

2023.06.26-Horses4Help-300x200.png

401 ms

2023.06.21-park--300x200.png

2023.06.21-park--300x200.png

407 ms

AGM-Invite-2023-300x200.jpg

AGM-Invite-2023-300x200.jpg

400 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

344 ms

collect

collect

23 ms

Accessibility Review

befriending.org accessibility score

84

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

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

befriending.org best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

befriending.org SEO score

96

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Befriending.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 Befriending.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Befriending. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: