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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

best-schools.co.uk

Best Schools - Best Schools - Expert UK Education Placement Consultants and League Table Providers.

Page Load Speed

14.2 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

12.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Welcome to best-schools.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Best Schools best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about best-schools.co.uk

Best Schools are leading education consultants providing a UK private school placement service along with school league tables.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Best-schools.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 14 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

best-schools.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

best-schools.co.uk

190 ms

best-schools.co.uk

394 ms

www.best-schools.co.uk

608 ms

gtm.js

69 ms

css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Best-schools.co.uk, 24% (14 requests) were made to A.educationadvisers.co.uk and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.5 sec) relates to the external source A.educationadvisers.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 213.6 kB (5%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Best-schools.co.uk main page is 4.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 21.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 190.5 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Best Schools images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 312.2 kB
  • After minification 312.1 kB
  • After compression 310.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 35.2 kB
  • After minification 35.2 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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. Best-schools.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (30%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best Schools. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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190 ms

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394 ms

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608 ms

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69 ms

css

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47 ms

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271 ms

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360 ms

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88 ms

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636 ms

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540 ms

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539 ms

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449 ms

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997 ms

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726 ms

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818 ms

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62 ms

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16 ms

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110 ms

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48 ms

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70 ms

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111 ms

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31 ms

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114 ms

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12 ms

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Accessibility Review

best-schools.co.uk accessibility score

62

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

best-schools.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

best-schools.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Best-schools.co.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 Best-schools.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

best-schools.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Best Schools. 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: